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Complementive predicative
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Predicative past participles cannot clearly be said to behave externally like adjectives and internally like verbs, as is claimed for attributive past participles.

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Predicative past participles do not exhibit agreement; predicative constructions never show agreement in Frisian. A predicative past participle may be accompanied by a passive argument, yielding an ordinary passive construction:

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a. De gegevens wurde troch de kompjûter opslein
the data become by the computer stored
The data are stored by the computer
b. De gegevens binne troch de kompjûter opslein
the data are by the computer stored
The data have been stored by the computer

Predicative past participles must be final within their projection, i.e. on the right periphery:

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a. Omdat de gegevens troch de kompjûter opslein binne
because the data by the computer stored are
Because the data are stored by the computer
b. *Omdat de gegevens opslein troch de kompjûter binne
because the data stored by the computer are
Because the data are stored by the computer

Although the Head Final Filter generalization is normally taken to apply to attributive adjectives only, it also seems to apply to complementive predicative participles in Frisian, and in fact, to main verbs in Frisian in general. In the dialects of Dutch, many reorderings of the verb cluster are possible, but verbal dependents never show up to the immediate right of a (non-rightmost main) verb within the verbal cluster. They always stay to the left of the verb (barring extraposition), not only in Frisian but also in Flemish and Dutch dialects. They can only appear to the right of the main verb in case they occur to the right of the verb cluster as a whole (extraposition):

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Omdat de gegevens opslein binne troch de kompjûter
because the data stored are by the computer
Because the data are stored by the computer
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