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Basic English Syntax with Exercises ppt

... [that Mary may marry Martin] The predicate here is the verb marry and the arguments are Mary and Martin. Let us call the part of meaning expressed by a predicate and its arguments the basic ... phonological and semantic information. Traditionally, verbs which have nominal complements are called transitive and those without intransitive. The verb await is a transitive verb and wait is intransitive. ... states the categorial status of the complement is known as a subcategorisation frame. Thus a lexical entry for a typical verb will consist of a theta-grid and a subcategorisation frame in addition...