Syntactic function nm+V{PRED}
mass noun preceding a predicative verb phrase.
This category allows one in special cases to assemble the uses as a grammatical subject of certain nouns. In the cases like that of 民 this is of considerable historical interest. But in the case of most nouns there is no need to list and study their uses as objects versus subjects. Syntactic categories like these illustrate very well the way in which our analytical categories quite often do reflect our more general cognitive interest in addition to our grammatical interest. Our categories are analytic tools which we create for our varied intellectual uses.
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