87 faces of the English clause

Authors

Richard S. Pittman, SIL-UND
David D. Thomas, SIL-UND

DOI

10.31356/silwp.vol11.09

Abstract

From the introduction, "Nguyen Dang Liem, in his "Contrastive Analysis of English and Vietnamese," Vol. 1 (Canberra, 1966), gives a very useful table (page 47) of 87 English clause types. This is a review and commentary on that chart, with two proposals: 1) that all of the types be derived from one sentence -- "They gave him the presidency" -- rather than from several, as in Liem's original formulation; and 2) that the relationships between the major types be described by means of a two-branched tree."

Recommended Citation

Pittman, Richard S. and Thomas, David D. (1967) "87 faces of the English clause," Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session: Vol. 11, Article 9.
DOI: 10.31356/silwp.vol11.09
Available at: https://commons.und.edu/sil-work-papers/vol11/iss1/9