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Eckhard Bick - VISL

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(4c) Há sempre um garçon discutindo um outro. (ACC)<br />

Another fixed, clausal construction occurs with the preposition com and sem.. These<br />

two prepositions can function as a kind of "complementiser" in creating clause-like<br />

adverbials where what ordinarily would be the nominal complement of the preposition,<br />

is predicated in a clausal way by gerunds, place or time PPs, or APs expressing state.<br />

The gerund case can be treated in a consistent way, as an ICL:<br />

• Prepositional "complementisers"<br />

(5a) ... com um ator étnico estrelando. (P

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