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---
name: "025"
caption: "Network of non-prototypical sentence constructions"
colorization: "off"
category: "Construction Grammar"
polyline: "on"
symmetrization: "off"
connector: "bar"
font: "Noto Serif"
reference: "Goldberg 2006: 177"
---
```
[#**Non\-prototypical<>sentence**\
  ---\
  NON\-POSITIVE,\
  non\-predicate<>focus,\
  non\-assertive,\
  dependent,\
  non\-declarative
  [#**Y/N<>questions**\
    ---\
    NON\-POSITIVE,\
    non\-declarative\
    ---\
    *Did<>she<>go?*
    [#**Wh\-Questions**\
      ---\
      non\-declarative\
      ---\
      *Where<>did<>she<>go?*
    ]
    [#**Exclamatives**\
      ---\
      non\-assertive\
      ---\
      *Boy<>did<>she<>go!*
    ]
  ]
  [#**Counterfactual<>conditionals**\
    ---\
    NON\-POSITIVE\
    dependent,<>non\-asserted\
    ---\
    *Had<>he<>found<>a<>solution,<>he*\
    *would<>take<>time<>off<>and<>relax.*
  ]
  [#**Initial<>negative**\
    **adverb<>clauses**\
    ---\
    NON\-POSITIVE\
    ---\
    *Not<>until<>yesterday<>did*\
    *he<>take<>a<>break.*\
  ]
  [#**Negative<>rejoinder**\
    ---\
    NON\-POSITIVE,\
    dependent\
    ---\
    *Neither<>is<>this<>construction*\
    *unexpected.*
    [#**Positive<>conjunct<>clauses**\
      ---\
      non\-predicate<>focus,\
      dependent\
      ---\
      *So<>was<>I.*
    ]
  ]
  [#**Comparatives**\
    ---\
    non\-topic\-comment,\
    dependent\
    ---\
    *He<>was<>faster<>at<>it*\
    *than<>was<>she.*
  ]
  [#**Wishes,<>curses**\
    ---\
    NON\-POSITIVE,\
    non\-declarative\
    ---\
    *May<>a<>million<>flies*\
    *infest<>his<>armpits!*
  ]
]
```

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