Syntactic function vt[0](oN)
a transitive verb with a regularly omitted but invariant and syntactically predictable omitted subject and an omitted but contextually determinate object (e.g. nuo4 諾 "yes!")
The deverbal nature of we2i 唯 "Yes!" is clear enough, as it is in the comparable case of nuo4 諾 "Yes!". Moreover the logical subject is not in question: in both cases the underlying deep logical subject is the speaker who agrees. But the point is that in its grammaticalised form this word could have no more of a subject than the English "Yes!" Therefore we register this kind of grammaticalised verb as subjectless with a bracketed "(0)".
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