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Auto-terminating clauses
(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}}. | |||