clause
see also: Clause
Pronunciation
Clause
Proper noun
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see also: Clause
Pronunciation
- IPA: /klɔːz/
clause (plural clauses)
- (grammar) A verb, its necessary grammatical arguments, and any adjuncts affecting them.
- (grammar) A verb along with its subject and their modifiers. If a clause provides a complete thought on its own, then it is an independent (superordinate) clause; otherwise, it is (subordinate) dependent.
- However, Coordination facts seem to undermine this hasty conclusion: thus, consider the following:
(43) [Your sister could go to College], but [would she get a degree?]
The second (italicised) conjunct is a Clause containing an inverted Auxiliary, would. Given our earlier assumptions that inverted Auxiliaries are in C, and that C is a constituent of S-bar, it follows that the italicised Clause in (43) must be an S-bar. But our familiar constraint on Coordination tells us that only constituents belonging to the same Category can be conjoined. Since the second Clause in (43) is clearly an S-bar, then it follows that the first Clause must also be an S-bar — one in which the C(omplementiser) position has been left empty.
- However, Coordination facts seem to undermine this hasty conclusion: thus, consider the following:
- (legal) A separate part of a contract, a will or another legal document.
- French: proposition
- German: Nebensatz
- Portuguese: oração
- French: proposition
- German: Teilsatz
- Portuguese: oração
- Russian: предложе́ние
clause (clauses, present participle clausing; past and past participle claused)
- (transitive, shipping) To amend (a bill of lading or similar document).
Clause
Proper noun
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