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Darzi, Ali. "On the vP Analysis of Persian Finite Control Constructions." Linguistic Inquiry 39, no. 1 (January 2008): 103–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/ling.2008.39.1.103.

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Ghomeshi (2001) proposes an account of Persian subject control constructions in terms of a reduced vP complement to the control verb, following a proposal made by Wurmbrand (2001). Faced with the fact that the complement of the control verb is headed by what has been treated in the linguistic literature on Persian as the complementizer ke ‘that’, she suggests that ke, in this construction, is a clitic hosted by the matrix control verb. However, closer examination of the claimed “restructuring” construction, the distribution of temporal adverbials, and ke-cliticization in Persian militates against such a proposal.

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Kim, Hyunwoo, Gyu-Ho Shin, and Haerim Hwang. "INTEGRATION OF VERBAL AND CONSTRUCTIONAL INFORMATION IN THE SECOND LANGUAGE PROCESSING OF ENGLISH DATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS." Studies in Second Language Acquisition 42, no. 4 (March 18, 2020): 825–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0272263119000743.

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AbstractThis study investigated the effects of construction types on Korean-L1 English-L2 learners’ verb–construction integration in online processing by presenting the ditransitive and prepositional dative constructions and manipulating the verb’s association strength within these constructions. Results of a self-paced reading experiment showed that the L2 group spent longer times in the verb–construction integration in the postverbal complement region when processing the ditransitive construction, which is less canonical and highly avoided in the learners’ L1, than when processing the prepositional dative construction, which is more canonical and shares similar structural features with the L1 counterpart. In the following spillover region, L2 learners showed faster reading times as proficiency increased when the verb was strongly associated with the prepositional dative construction. Our findings expand the scope of current models on L2 sentence processing by suggesting that construction types and L2 proficiency may affect the L2 integration of verbal and constructional information.

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Azazil, Lina. "Frequency effects in the L2 acquisition of the catenative verb construction – evidence from experimental and corpus data." Cognitive Linguistics 31, no. 3 (August 27, 2020): 417–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cog-2018-0139.

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AbstractThis paper investigates frequency effects in the L2 acquisition of the catenative verb construction by German learners of English from a usage-based perspective by presenting findings from two experimental studies and a complementary corpus study. It was examined if and to what extent the frequency of the verb in the catenative verb construction affects the choice of the target-like complement type and if the catenative verb construction with a to-infinitive complement, which is highly frequent in English, is more accurately acquired and entrenched than the less frequent variant with an -ing complement. In all three studies, the more frequent construction with a to-infinitive yielded higher numbers of target-like complement choices. Furthermore, it was shown that the verb’s faithfulness to the construction made a significant prediction of a target-like complement preference. It is argued that a higher faithfulness promotes a target-like entrenchment of the construction and motivates a taxonomic generalisation across related exemplars. Furthermore, the results provide support for the idea that the mental representation of language is comprised of item-specific as well as more abstract schema knowledge, where frequency determines the specificity with which the construction is entrenched.

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Sawyer, Joan. "Bifurcating the verb particle construction." Annual Review of Language Acquisition 1 (October 19, 2001): 119–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/arla.1.04saw.

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In the literature, John threw the ball up and The baby threw his dinner up have both been treated as members of the set of verb particle constructions (VPC). Syntactic evidence from action nominalizations, insertion of degree adverbials, contrastive stress, and gapped constructions (Fraser, 1976) suggests that the VPC must be bifurcated into two classes: a verb adverb construction (VAC) containing a verb, a complement, and an adverb and a VPC with a verb, complement, and a particle. Literature on the acquisition of the VPC has not taken this distinction into account. This article focuses on the acquisition of the VAC. The patterning on syntactic tests is a result of the fact that adverbs are predicators and particles are not. Additional syntactic tests (initial coordination of adverbs and adverbs+PPs and placing locative adverbs in argument positions) suggest that adverbs (not particles) are phrasal constituents: the adverb takes the apparent object as its subject. The bifurcation of the VPC and the suggested structure are supported by evidence from child language acquisition. Children treat the two constructions differently from the earliest stages. Crucially, the overwhelming error (79%) in VAC use is dropping the grammatical object. The timing of this error corresponds to that of subject drop in the null subject stage.

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Shi, Ziqiang. "The grammaticalization of the particle le in Mandarin Chinese." Language Variation and Change 1, no. 1 (March 1989): 99–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954394500000132.

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ABSTRACTThis article investigates the grammaticalization process of liao as a main verb in 10th-century vernacular texts to le as an aspectual particle in modern Chinese. I propose that two processes are involved. First, with the “resultative construction” coming into existence in the language, some instances of liao were reanalyzed as the phase complement of the new morphological construction. Second, other instances of the verb began to lose their verbness by taking sentential subjects and occurring in temporal clauses only. These processes gave rise to the positional change of liao from after the complement of the verb to before the complement of the verb of le.

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Ogata, Kozué. "L’analyse des constructions du verbe venir avec l’infinitif." Lingvisticæ Investigationes. International Journal of Linguistics and Language Resources 26, no. 2 (July 30, 2004): 297–309. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/li.26.2.09oga.

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Summary The object of this paper is to explore the constructions of the French verb venir with a infinitival complement, through the analysis of a large corpus. We conclude that differences between verbs and auxiliaries are a matter of degree. Contrary to the cases of the movement verb venir (Table 2 in M. Gross, 1975, ex. Pierre est venu voir Marie), the subject, in some constructions of «venir + infinitive» is an inanimate noun. We propose to distinguish, among the constructions mentioned above, the aspectual use of venir (ex. Cet incident est venu compliquer encore la question). This use of venir is to be analyzed as an intermediate state between movement verbs and auxiliaries. In this aspectual construction, whose subject can be caracterized as an abstract noun, the verb venir does not take a locative complement, contrary to any other constructions of «venir + infinitive» (with the exception of the auxiliary use venir de). Such aspectual constructions do not exist with the verb aller, the counterpart deictic verb of venir. If venir in aspectual use is on the way to becoming an auxiliary, aller without this use can be considered as more advanced in the axe of auxiliarity.

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Law, Paul. "A Note on the Serial Verb Construction in Chinese." Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale 25, no. 2 (1996): 199–233. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/19606028-90000052.

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The paper considers two superficially very similar constructions with two verbs in Chinese, and suggests a syntactic account for their different properties with respect to word-order, placement and scope of adverbs, and extraction. Specifically, it proposes to relate the cluster of properties of having alternative word-orders, the positioning and non-ambiguous construal of adverbs, as well as syntactic extraction of the object of the second verb to a structure in which the first verb takes as complement a VP headed by the second verb, and the lack of these properties to a structure in which the VP headed by the first verb is an adjunct to the VP headed by the second verb.

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Boneh, Nora. "Pseudo-grammaticalization: The anatomy of "come" in Modern Hebrew pseudo-coordination constructions." Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 5, no. 2 (June 9, 2020): 16. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v5i2.4791.

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The paper examines the pseudo-coordination construction featuring the verb come preceding a lexical verb in Modern Hebrew, and shows that this is a mono-clausal mono-eventive construction, which did not emerge via a process of grammaticalization. That is, there is no tightening of internal dependencies between parts of the construction (Haspelmath 2004), nor evidence of a lexical unit starting to assume grammatical functions (Heine, Claudi & Hünnemeyer 1991). I go on to argue that, in this particular construction, the verb come is a “lexical restructuring verb” (Wurmbrand 2004, 2014), whose lexical properties do not differ from those of ‘simple’ change-of-location uses of come in that both feature a deictic meaning component. Particular attention will be paid to what looks like the absence of a motion component, suggesting that even if simple come selects for a prepositional complement, it does not necessarily encode a motion component, and therefore the absence of the PP, in a complex verb construction is not tied to loss of motion, but merely to a change in the type of complement. The current account provides substance to claims stressing a metaphorical relation between the two occurrences of come, since it points to the close similarities in the lexical-pragmatic properties of this lexeme in its two environments of use, and locates the difference between them in the choice of complement that produces the effect of transfer from the location realm to a more abstract one characteristic of metaphoric meanings.

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Dixon, R. M. W. "Comparative constructions." Studies in Language 32, no. 4 (September 12, 2008): 787–817. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sl.32.4.02dix.

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A typology of comparative constructions is presented, with major attention to the prototypical scheme in which two participants are compared in terms of the degree of some gradable property associated with them (as in John is more handsome than Felix). In a mono-clausal comparative construction, the Parameter (which is modified by the Index of comparison) may be copula complement, head of an intransitive predicate, or a verb within a serial verb construction. There are also bi-clausal comparative constructions, and — for languages with no comparative construction per se — comparative strategies. A non-prototypical scheme involves the comparison of two properties in relation to one participant (as in John is more loyal than intelligent). There is also brief discussion of directions of origin, diffusion and spread, and non-linguistic correlations.

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Koller, Bernhard. "Hittite pai- ‘come’ and uwa- ‘go’ as Restructuring Verbs." Proto-Indo-European Syntax and its Development 3, no. 1 (August 2, 2013): 77–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jhl.3.1.05kol.

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The present article provides a new syntactic analysis of the Hittite phraseological construction involving the verbs pai- ‘come’ or uwa- ‘go’ and a second finite verb. Most approaches have treated the construction as monoclausal in terms of verb serialization (Garrett 1990). This study will take a different approach, arguing that pai- and uwa- select a phrasal complement. The features that apparently set the construction apart from other cases of embedding in Hittite will be explained as effects of Restructuring (Rizzi 1982), a phenomenon Hittite also exhibits outside of the construction in question. It will further be argued that uwa- functions as a raising verb while pai- functions as a control verb, accounting for the differences in syntactic behavior between the two.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Verb-complement construction"

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Wang, Haidan. "Images and expressions resultative verb-complement constructions in Chinese /." Thesis, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2002. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=765044591&SrchMode=1&sid=13&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1209147430&clientId=23440.

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傅京. "論動結式與使動用法的關系 : 從使動用法到動結式的演變軌迹 = The relationship between verbal complement construction and the use of causative : the evolving footprint from the use of causative to verbal complement construction." Thesis, University of Macau, 2006. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b1447839.

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Ismayilov, Abdulali. "Étude comparative russe-français des constructions verbales problématiques lors de l'apprentissage du français (langue étrangère)." Thesis, Paris 4, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA040169.

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Basée sur une analyse contrastive, cette thèse aborde la structure verbale en français et en russe. Son objectif est d’établir un regard réflexif sur les deux langues dans le but de déterminer la différence et la ressemblance dans leur construction verbale. Explorant la question des verbes de structure différente des langues concernées, elle tente également de trouver les difficultés provoquées par cette différence à l’apprentissage. Ainsi, dans cette recherche, on parle des verbes problématiques sous un angle aussi didactique que linguistique. Composé de trois chapitres, ce travail étudie dans un premier temps le statut transitif/intransitif des verbes dans les deux langues en traitant l’approche traditionnelle et moderne et met en place une étude contrastive par rapport à la question de valence. On explore la construction verbale avec complément dans le deuxième chapitre de la recherche. Dans cette partie, l’analyse parallèle des verbes est effectuée afin de repérer leur fonctionnement selon les moyens grammaticaux de chaque langue. Et finalement, la comparaison de chaque verbe considéré problématique à l’apprentissage des deux langues suivie de tableaux fait partie du dernier chapitre. La production des tests préliminaires effectués auprès des apprenants russophones constitue également cette partie pour mieux comprendre la difficulté de ces derniers lors de la communication
Based on a contrastive analysis, this thesis deals with the verbal structure in French and Russian. Its objective is to establish a reflexive look at the two languages in order to determine the difference and the similarity in their verbal construction. Exploring the question of the verbs of different structure, it also tries to find the difficulties caused by this difference in learning. Thus, in this research, problematic verbs are spoken of in a didactic as well as linguistic angle. This work, composed of three chapters, speaks first of all about the transitive/intransitive status of verbs in both languages by treating the traditional and modern approach and sets up a contrastive study in relation to the valence question. Verbal construction is explored with complement in the second chapter of the research. In this part, the parallel analysis of the verbs is performed in order to identify their functioning according to the grammatical means of each language. And finally, the comparison of each verb considered problematical to the learning in both languages followed by tables took the part of the last chapter. The production of preliminary tests with Russian-speaking learners is also part of this work in order to better understand the difficulties of the latter during the communication

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Du, Chen Sheng, and 杜陳聖. "The Strucuture of Verb-Complement Constructions in Taiwanese:." Thesis, 1994. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/20747898127925811061.

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The previous studies on Taiwanese focus on the phonology and written forms, but few on other fields. In the thesis, we adopt a widely usde structure: Verb-Complement Construction to explore the syntax and semantics of the construction. Verb- Complement Constructions consist of two verbs or one verb plus a functional item which specifies verbal of the first verb. Due to the lack of previous studies on the topic, we first review several analyses on Mandarin Verb-Complement Compounds and adopt Chang's (1994) argument-structure-based analysis as the research approach. We propose that two factors contribute to the formation of this construction: syntactic transitivity and argument structure. The argument structure is divided into two categories: full-fledged and degenerated. Verb-complement Constructions, syntactically speaking, are formed by the combinations of transitive-transitive, intransitive- intransitive, and transitive-intransitive. Verb-Complement Constructions with full-fledged argument structure are distinguished into eight types based on the five types of this construction in terms of syntactic transitivity; Verb- complement constructions with degenerated argument structure are classified into four types based on the four kinds of this construction in terms of syntactic transitivity. We argue that different syntactic structures such as middle forms, verb copying constructions, HO construction, and KA construction as well as semantics of the construction can be effectively accounted for by argument structure. By the study, we hope to provide a fundamental and clear picture on the construction.

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Cheng, Ying, and 鄭縈. "A Comparative Study on Word Order of Verb-complement Constructions between Mandarin and Minnan Dialect." Thesis, 1997. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/10256401558761880752.

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Books on the topic "Verb-complement construction"

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García, Ma Victorina Crego. El complemento locativo en español: Los verbos de movimiento y su combinatoria sintáctico-semántica. [Santiago de Compostela]: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 2000.

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Zhen, Peng Guo. Resultative complement theory and moder verb-resultative construction. Zhejiang University Press, 2011.

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van Craenenbroeck, Jeroen, and Tanja Temmerman, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Ellipsis. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198712398.001.0001.

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This handbook is the first volume to provide a comprehensive, in-depth, and balanced discussion of ellipsis phenomena, whereby a perceived interpretation is fuller than would be expected based solely on the presence of linguistic forms. Natural language abounds in these apparently incomplete expressions, such as I laughed but Ed didn’t, in which the final portion of the sentence, the verb ‘laugh’, remains unpronounced but is still understood. The range of phenomena involved raise general and fundamental questions about the workings of grammar, but also constitute a treasure trove of fine-grained points of inter- and intralinguistic variation. The volume is divided into four parts. In the first, the authors examine the role that ellipsis plays and how it is analyzed in different theoretical frameworks and linguistic subdisciplines, such as HPSG, construction grammar, inquisitive semantics, and computational linguistics. Chapters in the second part highlight the usefulness of ellipsis as a diagnostic tool for other linguistic phenomena including movement and islands and codeswitching, while Part III focuses instead on the types of elliptical constructions found in natural language, such as sluicing, gapping, and null complement anaphora. Finally, the last part of the book contains case studies that investigate elliptical phenomena in a wide variety of languages, including Dutch, Japanese, Persian, and Finnish Sign Language.

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Felser, Claudia. Verbal Complement Clauses: A Minimalist Study of Direct Perception Constructions (Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today). John Benjamins Publishing Co, 1999.

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Book chapters on the topic "Verb-complement construction"

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Sioupi, Athina. "On the syntax and semantics of verb-complement constructions that involve ‘creation’." In Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 263–84. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/la.45.12sio.

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Kaunisto, Mark, and Juhani Rudanko. "Complement Selection and the Syntactic Status of Infinitival to: The Case of the Verb Submit." In Variation in Non-finite Constructions in English, 61–80. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19044-6_4.

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Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y. "Serial verbs." In Serial Verbs, 55–91. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198791263.003.0003.

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In terms of their composition, serial verb constructions divide into asymmetrical and symmetrical. Asymmetrical serial verbs consist of a minor component from a closed class of verbs, and a major component from an open class; this is the head of the construction. Symmetrical serial verbs consist of several components from open classes. Asymmetrical serial verb constructions cover a wide array of meanings—direction and orientation, aspect, extent and change of state, associated posture and motion, increasing and reducing valency, and marking the index of comparison. They are also used as complementation strategies with secondary concept verbs and with complement-taking verbs, and mark manner modification in event-argument constructions. The recurrent meanings of symmetrical serial verbs cover cause-effect, result, and manner, in addition to synonymous verb constructions. The established properties of asymmetrical and symmetrical serial verbs are defined in terms of their meanings, iconicity, internal structure, and grammaticalization and lexicalization.

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"A Diasystematic Construction Grammar analysis of language change in the Afrikaans and English finite verb complement clause construction." In Constructions in Contact 2. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cal.30.05van.

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Saxon, Leslie. "The Tłı̨chǫ syntactic causative and non-nominal CPs." In Contrast and Representations in Syntax, 179–212. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198817925.003.0007.

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Study of the periphrastic causative in Tłı̨chǫ has its origins in community-based research supporting a literacy manual and dictionary database. It is shown that the causative verb ats’ele ‘cause, let, do to’ takes two complements: the causee and a second expression of varying complexity that indicates the caused process or result. At its most complex, the second complement can be a clause which bears an adverbializing suffix and expresses the caused situation. Ats’ele selects a TypeP, which is independent of the higher verb in aspect, tense, and polarity. This leads to a broader range of interpretations of the relationship between causing and caused situations than is found in languages where the caused situation is expressed as a verb phrase. The complementizer used in the causative construction contrasts with a nominalizer in the language, in that it forms an adverbial clause. The facts thus provide a novel instance of non-nominal complementation.

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"10. Verb complement constructions." In A Grammar of Southern Min, 176–211. De Gruyter Mouton, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781501511868-010.

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Booij, Geert. "Separable complex verbs." In The Morphology of Dutch, 223–45. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198838852.003.0007.

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Separable complex verbs (SCVs) are a subtype of multi-word expressions: phrasal predicates with a verbal head, and particles, adjectives, or nouns as non-heads. They behave as lexical units, but cannot be analysed as verbal compounds. They are analysed as verb phrases with a non-projecting complement, and they can also behave as syntactic compounds, with syntactic incorporation of the preverb. The subtype of SCVs with a Noun as complement is called quasi-incorporation. Nominalizations of separable complex verbs are nominals compounds consisting of a preverb and a deverbal nominalization. This implies a systematic paradigmatic relationship between phrasal constructions (SCVs) and morphological constructions (the corresponding nominalization compounds).

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Faarlund, Jan Terje. "The adjective phrase." In The Syntax of Mainland Scandinavian, 55–68. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198817918.003.0003.

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Besides adjectives proper, participles also function syntactically as adjectives. Adjectives used as predicate complements have an external argument which may raise to become the subject of a copula or the object of a transitive verb. Adjectives may take complements, although mostly they occur without one. A few adjectives take a nominal complement, but mostly the complement is a PP. The complement may also be an infinitival relative, which is the derivational basis of ‘tough’ constructions. An adjective may be preceded by a modifying degree phrase (DegP), expressing degree or comparison. The comparative and the superlative are expressed by modifiers ‘more’ and ‘most’, or by a suffix which is checked against an abstract degree element in DegP. DegP may be followed by a comparative phrase which is extraposed to the right of the adjective.

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Jin, Hong Gang, Hongyin Tao, and Jie Zhang. "A Corpus-Based Investigation of Manner/State Complement Constructions in Mandarin Chinese." In Sinica venetiana. Venice: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-406-6/002.

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This study is an investigation of the complement constructions of manner and state (CM/S, e.g. ta de zi xie de hao‘s/he writes character well’) based on a corpus of written Chinese. We find that CM/S have preferred forms and functions. Formally speaking, a monosyllabic verb, preferably bian ‘change, become’, basic action verbs, or psychological state verbs tend to co-occur with complements of adjectival, clausal, or idiomatic expressions. CM/S are argued to be an assessment device indexing speaker evaluative stances. The loaded affective meanings, we contend, account for the larger and more complex forms than their standard assessment counterparts. The implications of these findings on Chinese syntactic research and on L2 learning are explored.

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Miller, D. Gary. "Verbal and sentential syntax." In The Oxford Gothic Grammar, 379–468. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198813590.003.0009.

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Gothic is a null subject language. The binder of an anaphor can be a null subject. Binding requires asymmetrical c-command. Possessive sein- can be a syntactic or discourse anaphor. Gothic may attest the beginning of the Germanic two-reflexive system. The simple reflexive, without silba (self), is productive in anticausative structures. Verbal prefixes alter meaning, lexical, or grammatical aspect. Ga- has numerous other functions, including definiteness and temporal completion. The nonpast participle functions as a relative clause substitute and in absolute constructions. In the absence of switch reference, infinitives are the norm with modal and control verbs and purposives after verbs of motion (otherwise + du). The accusative with a participle or infinitive can be a matrix object or embedded subject. Accusative and infinitive depends on case from the matrix verb. The infinitive is usually wisan (to be) as an expansion of a small clause. Relative clauses require the complementizer ei (that). Verbs whose complements are factual or realizable are typically in the indicative. Those that do not allow a full range of independent tenses in the complement clause, or whose complements are not realized, are only potentially realized, or deal with possible worlds or alternate states of reality, trigger a shift to the optative, which has a number of independent uses as well.

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