Complex phrases within clauses

Abstract

The text from Hemingway’s Fiesta, described in Chapter 6, section 6.9, contained a number of kernel clauses, but the other non-kernel clauses remain to be discussed. They either contain complex phrases as constituents, or else differ from a kernel clause in one or more of its basic features:

• (a) finite (tensed)

• (b) declarative mood

• (c) in the active voice, and

• (d) in the order SP (C) (A)

and so they are said to be derived from kernel clauses. Some of them will be referred to in this chapter, but there is a more complete commentary in Chapter 8.