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Complement Polyvalence and Permutation in English

verfasst von: Brendan S. Gillon

Erschienen in: Journal of Logic, Language and Information | Ausgabe 3/2014

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In this paper, I address the problem wherein the same English word permits one of its complement positions to be satisfied by phrases of different categories. A well-known example of such an English word is the copula to be, whose complements include adjective phrases, noun phrases, prepositional phrases and adverbial phrases. I provide a way to treat such words, in particular verbs, as single lexical items through a conservative extension of the usual treatment of word classification as a pair comprising a part of speech category and a complement list. I then show how a further conservative extension of complement lists permits a satisfactory formalization of doubly complemented English verbs which are synonymous under a permutation of their complements. These verbs include, but are not limited to, so-called double object constructions.

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Titel: Complement Polyvalence and Permutation in English
verfasst von: Brendan S. Gillon
Publikationsdatum: 01.09.2014
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in: Journal of Logic, Language and Information / Ausgabe 3/2014
Print ISSN: 0925-8531
Elektronische ISSN: 1572-9583
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10849-014-9191-2

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