Syntactic function vt0oS1.adS2
a transitive verb with a sentential object S1 preceding and modifying another sentence S2; a sentence connective derivedfrom a transitive verb
These words work rather like "supposing now" in English and they show different degrees of grammaticalisation. For example 比 "when" is highly grammaticalised, whereas 設 "supposing that (the Danish being even closer to the Chinese: saet at)" is markedly less so. Such different degrees of grammaticalisation are not captured by the present analytic system because it has no graded categories.
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