What is a medial clause?

A medial clause is any clause in a clause chain which

• is not the final clause, and
• is distinguishable from the final clause by a difference in verb morphology.

• What is a clause?

Longacre 1985 264

Longacre 1983 299

Context for this page:

• Concept module: medial clause
• In overview module: Glossary (Linguistics): M
• In modular book: Glossary of linguistic terms, by Eugene E. Loos (general editor), Susan Anderson (editor), Dwight H., Day, Jr. (editor), Paul C. Jordan (editor), and J. Douglas Wingate (editor)
• In bookshelf: Linguistics

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