In the early days of generative grammar, new conceptions of the clause were emerging.
Paul Postal and Noam Chomsky argued that every verb phrase had a subject, even if none was expressed, (though Joan Bresnan and Michael Brame disagreed).
Supplements, too can be verbless clauses, as in Many people came, some of them children or Break over, they returned to work.
Ascriptive clauses consist of a subject noun and nominalised adjective.
Inalienable nominals (body parts and kinship) are only optionally marked dative.
[7] wartarraheyyu2SGbinPSTkirtbreakdatthengakparn-kufrog-DAThawujhousewartarra yu bin kirt dat ngakparn-ku hawujhey 2SG PST break the frog-DAT house"Hey you broke the frog's home (the bottle).
"[8]In Jingulu language, predicates in verbless clauses can be adjectives or nouns, possessors, adpositionals, or adverbs.