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clausal en · ADJ

Etymology

From clause + -al.

Meanings

  1. Of, pertaining to, or constructed using clauses.
    • In contrast, a sentence complement is a clause that is lexically specified by a particular noun, like fact[…], and consequently, there is no missing position in the embedded clause. Other nouns with clausal components include belief, report, statement, possibility and many others. These nouns take a clause as part of their meaning. For fact, for example, the clausal complement describes the content of the fact. 2025, Edward A. F. Gibson, “Dependency Locality in Language Processing” (chapter 4), in Syntax: A Cognitive Approach, MIT Press, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 119–120:

Deriveds

superclausal · clausal normal form · interclausal · biclausal · subclausal · multiclausal · nonclausal · clausal complement · monoclausal