clausal
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- adjective
- /ˈklɔːzəl/
- Specialized
- In linguistics, a clausal structure often includes a subject and a predicate.
- clausal intricacy
- clausal density
Examples
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This setting of an action in time is apparent in the contrast between a clausal representation of an action (the assistant reconstructed the sequence) and a phrasal representation of the same action (the assistant's reconstruction of the sequence).
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For COORD, or clausal coordination, all three groups, on average, produced fewer than one clausal coordinator.
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However, this may be due to the clausal coordinator scoring system.
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The source story only provided five examples of clausal coordination using and within a C-unit.
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But without a measure of clausal intricacy, their statement would not stand above dispute.
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But we are not in the same situation when it comes to measuring clausal intricacy.
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The chief characteristic of the dynamic style is grammatical or clausal intricacy.
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To be more specific, I believe that we need some means of measuring the clausal intricacy of the dynamic style more delicately than we have available to us now.
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When I reported above on the clausal intricacy of a sentence from one of the early spectroscopic articles, I simply specified what kinds of clauses the sentence contains.
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A composite norm-referenced score of syntax was significantly related to several measures of syntax from the language samples, including mean length of T-unit and clausal density.
Academic text (2014)
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Clausal comes from clause, which comes from an old Latin word claudere meaning 'to close' and is like the English word close, because a clause is a 'closed' part of a sentence. So clausal means 'relating to those parts of a sentence'.