[Lingtyp] neither simple nor complex clause

[Christian Lehmann]

Many thanks to all of you who have bothered to help me solve my 
terminological problem, some writing me beside the list. Some have 
rightly confirmed that the collection of constructions which I had 
mentioned hardly represents a homogeneous concept. We can, however, 
leave the theoretical problem aside and limit ourselves to the practical 
problem of finding a heading for a set of constructions essentially 
constituted by the negative criterion of being neither a simple nor a 
complex clause (pace, let it be repeated, one or another theory 
insisting on tertium non datur).

For all those who have a use for a term covering such phenomena, it may 
matter that an overwhelming majority have suggested the term 
'sesquiclausal construction'. I will adopt it.
-- 

Prof. em. Dr. Christian Lehmann
Rudolfstr. 4
99092 Erfurt
Deutschland

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