Verbal bracket

13:30 Feb 1, 2015 

"All Germanic languages have had at some stage in their development a feature of verb placement known as the verbal brace (Satzrahmen). In main clauses, this brace construction occurs only in complex tenses. It involves both the finite verb in second position and all non-finite verbal elements in final position. These together form an imaginary kind of bracket or brace around all other sentence constituents. In subordinate clauses, it involves the initial subordinating conjunction and all clause final verbal elements. These also form a kind of bracke around the other clausal constituents." (Siewierska & Song: Case, Typology and Grammar, p. 79)
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Indeed, Alice Hegrova's reponse is certainly correct in that "slovesný rámec" IS an existing Czech equivalent. Nevertheless, her second example (the Slovo a slovesnost article) shows that, at least in the field of linguistics, "slovesný rámec" has a much wider, more general meaning.
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Perhaps, there's no unambiguous solution to this problem. Any suggestions are welcome though.