proverbum
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Dutch
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Noun
proverbum n (plural proverba)
- (grammar, linguistics) pro-verb
- 1975, Mathijs Maria Willebrord Pollmann, Oorzaak en handelende persoon: de beschrijving van passieve zinnen in de Nederlandse grammatica [Cause and actor: an analysis of passive sentences in Dutch grammar] (Dissertation), Nijmegen, →OCLC, page 72:
- Op grond daarvan moet men dan ook verwachten dat de analyse zichzelf bevestigt in alle zinstypen waarin het pro-verbum doen optreedt. Het is echter in minstens één geval zo dat zinnen met het pro-verbum doen in strijd zijn met Ross' analyse, en tot een wijziging er van dwingen.
- On this basis we would expect the analysis to be confirmed in all sentence types in which the pro-verb doen appears. In at least one case, however, the pro-verb doen acts counter to Ross’s analysis, requiring a reconsideration.