子句

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子句（clause）又稱從句、分句、小句，在文法中是構成一個完整句子的最小文法單位^[1]，主從複句里的一種子句。典型的子句通常包含主語、謂語這兩個成分^[2]，其中謂語一般是主謂短語，由動詞和賓語等其他修飾成分構成。然而，主語時常被省掉（尤其是在無主語語句（英語：null-subject language）中），但有時也會在英語等其他語言中出現（如祈使句）。

腳註

^ For this basic definition in terms of a proposition, see Kroeger (2005:32).
^ For a definition of the clause that emphasizes the subject-predicate relationship, see Radford (2004327f.).

參考資料

Crystal, David (1997). A dictionary of linguistics and phonetics. fourth edition. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers.
Kroeger, Paul R. (2005). Analysing Grammar: An Introduction. Cambridge. UK: Cambridge University Press.
Timothy Osborne; Thomas Gross. Constructions are catenae: Construction Grammar meets Dependency Grammar. Cognitive Linguistics. 2012, 23 (1): 163–214. doi:10.1515/cog-2012-0006.
Radford, Andrew (2004). English syntax: An introduction. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

[1] For this basic definition in terms of a proposition, see Kroeger (2005:32).

[2] For a definition of the clause that emphasizes the subject-predicate relationship, see Radford (2004327f.).

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