Eckhard Bick - VISL

(7b) Ele trabalhava como @PRD escravo. (‘He worked as [a] slave’)
- Ele é um escravo. (‘He is a slave’)
In my system, I mark this distinction by using a special @PRD tag (“role predicator” or
“predicative subordinator”) for cases like (7b). Though both AS’s will be tagged as
functioning adverbially (@#AS-ADVL), the second contains a significant element of
“predicativity”. The AS in (7b) is much like @PRED or @SC, since it predicates
something of the subject. To take the analogy even further, consider (7c), where the AS
is predicated of the object in much the same way as an @OC (object complement)
would.
(7c) A mai tratava a filha @