Comparative Concept: complex sentence (cxn)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
complex sentence (cxn)
| Typ | construction (def) |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | complex sentence |
| Assoziiert | |
| Spraakbanken | complex sentence (cxn) |
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Definition
a construction made up of more than one clausal construction. Example: [The birds were singing] [when I went out to get the newspaper] is an instance of a complex sentence construction consisting of two clauses, indicated by square brackets in the example. (Sections 1.3, 15.1.1)