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Re: napbe' 'ej Dalbe' _See Spot run_



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On Sat, 4 Jan 1997, Ivan A Derzhanski wrote:

> > "See Spot run" is a command: "Hey you -- see something."[...]
> > The "something" there is another sentence: "Spot runs."
> 
> It's not a sentence (you don't say *_See Spot runs_), it is a small
> clause.  It has also been analysed as a number of other things.

I thought the predicate piece of a SC was an AP (i.e., stative)?  
(Though, given the previous letter, we can argue about the status of 
/run/).  Such as "The judge found the defendant innocent."  You wouldn't 
say *"(you) see Spot (to be) run."

> --'Iwvan

- --Holtej
Stardate 97011.91


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