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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.

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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}}.
-== Auto-terminating clauses ==
+== See also ==
-A similar idea sometimes rolled into the name Full Arguments is that of '''auto-terminating clauses'''.
+* [[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}}.