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This book began with a chapter on clauses as propositions. The word proposition was used in the sense of an assertion or statement, and it was suggested that this is a basic unit of communication between ourselves and others. The meaning of a complete proposition, expressing a unified aspect of our experience or thought, is encoded into English by means of the grammatical unit called clause.
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© 1987 Dennis Freeborn
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Freeborn, D. (1987). Kernel clauses. In: A Course Book in English Grammar. Studies in English Language. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18527-6_6
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