Chapter 2. Clause structure
This chapter describes the structure of clauses. The most crucial element in a clause is its predicate. Each predicate requires a certain number of arguments. The type of the predicate may also determine the order of the constituents in the clause. The arguments of a predicate have grammatical functions in a clause such as subject, direct object, and indirect object etc. The types of predicates, the realization of their arguments, and the identification of grammatical functions of arguments are described in Syntax - 2.1 and Syntax - 2.2. The rest of the chapter covers the syntactic phenomena that involve the arguments of predicates: word order, null (unpronounced) arguments, ellipsis of certain constituents within the clause, and copying of subject pronouns.
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