Nominal sentence

Under nominal rate be understood two different things:

• A proposition whose predicate consists of the auxiliary verb be ( copula ) and a predicate noun ( Kopulasatz ). A German example of this type of record is: "John is a doctor. " - " Doctor " in this case is the predicate noun.
• A sentence that contains the verb as the predicate.

In the sense of the last definition Tesnière determined on the basis of the center of a sentence besides verbal sentences and nominal rates. This is to noun phrases ( "Gateway " ), adjective phrases ( " Beautiful. ") Adverbsätze ( " Here. "). To complement are particle sets ( "Oh. ", " Yes. ").

Simmler differs due to the phrase number one - and multi-unit nominal rates: In addition to single-term nominal rates ("! Gate". " You", ". Subheadings ", ". Alas," " Yes." ) There are two-tier ( " one man - one word. " ), tripartite ( " Hail you up on that question! " from Goethe's ' Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship '), four-membered (" and the wide valley and down a Storming lake in the whistling of the wind " from Goethe's ' the Sorrows of young Werther ' ) and five-membered ( " and their meadows, I thought, and all the area around her cabin, as now, from the raging river, distraught our Pavilions, I thought. " from Goethe's ' the Sorrows of young Werther ').

In addition, nominal rates can also have the function of a dependent sentence as ' nominal subordinate clauses ' such as verbal clauses: " Not suitable for children under 3 years because of small parts. "

In Benveniste ( 1974: 169 ) states that in over individual linguistic perspective:

For this type there are in the German examples like " Im Westen nichts Neues " ( book title of Remarque ), " Little children - little worries, big kids - very worried " ( phrase ).

In languages ​​that "to be" for the copula form no present tense forms, verblose nominal rates are much more common. These include, for example, Russian, Arabic and Hebrew.