| Name |
First & Third-Person-Singular-Past-Tense Construction
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| Semantic function of cxn |
Relating a 'process' in which the subject is a participant to the time of the utterance or removing it from the reality of present time. |
| Usage conditions |
VTM-slot of sentence-type constructions with a subject of the type I, NPSG, NPmass or a clausal subject, or VTM-slot of a corresponding sentence-type fragment construction. |
| Slots |
1 |
| Syntactic form |
| was said had did told knew went thought took saw came felt found gave left wrote put began | | Vbase | /t/ | | /d/ | | /ɪd/ |
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