CASA|Con The CASA-ConstructiCon of the English Language


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Name General-Present-Tense Construction (2nd person singular and all plurals)
Semantic function of cxn Relating a 'process' in which the subject is a participant to the time of the utterance or giving it a neutral 'timeless' interpretation.
Usage conditions VTM-slot in sentence type constructions with you or a plural-NP subject or VTM-slot of a respective sentence-type fragment construction.
Slots 1
Syntactic form
VTpres2SG/123PL
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