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Name Third-Person-Singular-Present-Tense Construction
Semantic function of cxn Relating a 'process' with a third party participant to the time of the utterance or giving it a neutral 'timeless' interpretation.
Usage conditions VTM-slot in sentence type constructions with subjects of the type NPcount-sg or NPmass or a clause as subject or VTM-slot of a corresponding sentence-type fragment construction.
Slots 1
Syntactic form
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