LessonsWhen the Predicate Is a Clause: Strengthened Attribution, Causal Predication, and Adverbial PhrasesQuiz

الَّذِي فِي الدَّارِ أَخُوكَ
The person who is in the house is your brother.

Here «fī al-dār» functions within the relative construction introduced by «alladhī». Since a relative clause requires clausal content or its functional equivalent, the example is offered as support for an underlying verbal analysis.

A reply notes that relative clauses and ordinary predicates occupy different syntactic environments. Evidence from a relative construction does not automatically settle the analysis of every adverbial predicate.

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The relative-clause argument

When the Predicate Is a Clause: Strengthened Attribution, Causal Predication, and Adverbial Phrases

الَّذِي فِي الدَّارِ أَخُوكَ
The person who is in the house is your brother.

Here «fī al-dār» functions within the relative construction introduced by «alladhī». Since a relative clause requires clausal content or its functional equivalent, the example is offered as support for an underlying verbal analysis.

A reply notes that relative clauses and ordinary predicates occupy different syntactic environments. Evidence from a relative construction does not automatically settle the analysis of every adverbial predicate.