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Evaluatives
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Evaluative verbs are able to provide the outer structure for a transitive complementive predication.

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In evaluatives, the predication involves a subjective evaluation or assignment of properties to an argument:

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a. Hja fine [dy politikus slop]
they find that politician weak
They find that politician weak
b. Hy fynt himsels te goed foar sok wurk
he finds himself too good for such wurk
He thinks such work is beneath him
c. Tsjintwurdich neamme se dat in produksjemeiwurker
nowadays call they that a production.employee
Nowadays, they call that a production employee
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