WT 4.4

Webtool 4.4

complex sentence

a construction made up of more than one clausal construction. Example: [The birds were singing] [when I went out to get the newspaper] is an instance of a complex sentence construction consisting of two clauses, indicated by square brackets in the example. (Sections 1.3, 15.1.1)

Construction

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Constituency

Is Component Of

dependent clause

subordinate clause

Function

Has As Function

discourse coherence

Expression

Has As Expression

clause alignment

Hierarchy

Has as subtype

adverbial clause construction

comparative conditional construction

comparative construction

complement clause construction

concessive conditional construction

concessive construction

conditional construction

coordinate clause construction

equative construction

let alone construction

noun complement clause construction

reference tracking construction

relative clause construction

temporal construction

causal construction

purpose construction

apprehensional construction

means construction

negative circumstantial construction

additive construction

substitutive construction

subtractive construction

Is subtype of