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the grammaticalization of a secondary argument of a grammaticalized predicate, chapter 6, ¶6-1-1; a c. may be a phrase that completes the sense of the verb, an adjective, or an object of the verb, ¶6-6-1; an object c. usually corresponds to the c. in an imagined predicate having an object (in the grammaticalized predicate) as subject, ¶6-6-1; a c. phrase may also be defined so as to contain an adverbial clause |