Different Types of Small Clauses and Their Analysis

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Focusing on Small Clause (SC) analysis in English, this seminar paper offers a comprehensive overview of SCs, including their syntactic positioning within sentences. It introduces a controversial analysis, weighing its merits against predication analysis. The author employs various constituent tests to demonstrate SCs as functional syntactic units and explores semantic considerations to further justify their treatment as cohesive units. This rigorous examination contributes to the understanding of SCs in the field of linguistics.