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Dear Nigel,<br>
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allow me to remind you of two concepts which, to my mind, have
proved fruitful both in the descriptive analysis and the typology of
non-finite constructions:<br>
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<li>the open proposition/clause</li>
<li>the oriented proposition/clause.</li>
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The webpage<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.christianlehmann.eu/ling/lg_system/func_domains/nexion/nexion_index.php?open=open_proposition">https://www.christianlehmann.eu/ling/lg_system/func_domains/nexion/nexion_index.php?open=open_proposition</a><br>
is on #1 and takes you to #2.<br>
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Unless I am mistaken, concept #1 was introduced into linguistics by
Östen Dahl. Both concepts have been used, i.a., by Nikolaus
Himmelmann in his analysis of the Philippine voice system
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/files/24331/AP15NF-Himmelmann(1991).pdf)">http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/files/24331/AP15NF-Himmelmann(1991).pdf)</a>.<br>
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Best,<br>
Christian<br>
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