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(Created page with "'''Full Arguments''' is a proposal to merge the {{tone|6}} and {{tone|7}} tones (say, into {{tone|6}}). The new tone would turn intransitive verbs into adverbs, and transitive verbs into prepositions: {{Example|Sủaq dè súq tì sóaq.|You sing beautifully in the garden.}} Here, {{t|dè}} is intransitive so it does not take {{t|súq}} as its complement, but {{t|tì}} is transitive so it takes {{t|sóaq}} as its complement. Effectively, there is now only one...") |
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The new tone would turn intransitive verbs into [[adverb]]s, and transitive verbs into [[preposition]]s: | The new tone would turn intransitive verbs into [[adverb]]s, and transitive verbs into [[preposition]]s: | ||
{{Example|Sủaq dè súq tì sóaq.|You sing beautifully in the garden.}} | {{Example|Sủaq {{pink|dè}} súq {{blue|tì sóaq}}.|You sing {{pink|beautifully}} {{blue|in the garden}}.}} | ||
Here, {{t|dè}} is intransitive so it does not take {{t|súq}} as its complement, but {{t|tì}} is transitive so it takes {{t|sóaq}} as its complement. | Here, {{t|dè}} is intransitive so it does not take {{t|súq}} as its complement, but {{t|tì}} is transitive so it takes {{t|sóaq}} as its complement. | ||
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The difficulty with this proposal is that there are a few verbs which make sense both as adverbs and prepositions, for example {{t|ào}} and {{t|ão}}. | The difficulty with this proposal is that there are a few verbs which make sense both as adverbs and prepositions, for example {{t|ào}} and {{t|ão}}. | ||
== Auto-terminating clauses == | |||
A similar idea sometimes rolled into the name Full Arguments is that of '''auto-terminating clauses'''. | |||
The idea is that you don't need to say {{t|cy}} when a subclause verb has all its arguments filled. | |||
You know that the next argument must belong to the outer clause, because the inner clause can't take any more arguments. | |||
{{Example|Mẻoca {{blue|lôı súq nháo}} jí.|{{blue|The fact that you hate them}} saddens me.}} | |||
It would be ungrammatical for {{t|jí}} to be a third argument to {{t|loı}}, which is "full" — so it must be a second argument to {{t|meoca}}. | |||
Revision as of 17:37, 1 October 2022
Full Arguments is a proposal to merge the 
and 
tones (say, into ).
The new tone would turn intransitive verbs into adverbs, and transitive verbs into prepositions:
Sủaq dè súq tì sóaq.
You sing beautifully in the garden.
Here, dè is intransitive so it does not take súq as its complement, but tì is transitive so it takes sóaq as its complement.
Effectively, there is now only one kind of "adverbial", which consumes as many arguments as the verb can still hold (after filling the subject with the event variable) — hence the name.
The difficulty with this proposal is that there are a few verbs which make sense both as adverbs and prepositions, for example ào and ão.
Auto-terminating clauses
A similar idea sometimes rolled into the name Full Arguments is that of auto-terminating clauses.
The idea is that you don't need to say cy when a subclause verb has all its arguments filled.
You know that the next argument must belong to the outer clause, because the inner clause can't take any more arguments.
Mẻoca lôı súq nháo jí.
The fact that you hate them saddens me.
It would be ungrammatical for jí to be a third argument to loı, which is "full" — so it must be a second argument to meoca.