clause

in traditional (good) grammar a c. is a sentence or part of a sentence corresponding to a “complete thought,” — a grammaticalized proposition, §4-2, ¶5-1-2; the generative component of the TG-grammar developed here describes all sentences as independent clauses; dependent clauses are generated in parallel to the components of the sentence which have the same grammatical function; the rule characterizing an independent clause distinguishes between a “simple clause,” which has the components of a grammatical sentence, and a “compound clause,” which is composed of two independent clauses connected by a conjunction, cf., ¶5-1-2