Questions tagged [complement]
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Syntax X Bar Tree - Complements & Adjuncts
I am having some trouble to identify Complements and Adjuncts. I have the following sentence:
"A picture of the accident of Gabriel is saved on the album with a pink cover with the white dots&...
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In X bar theory, is the first auxiliary the head of an interrogative clause and the remainder the complement?
In X bar theory, the first auxiliary is the head of a declarative clause:
(1) She will have finished it by tomorrow.
Here, subject she is a specifier, and verb phrase have finished it by tomorrow is ...
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Is 'love' transitive?
I was just watching a linguistics video in which it was stated that in the sentence "John loves Mary", the verb love requires the direct object Mary, implying that it would be incorrect to ...
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I have my hair cut - "my hair" a Direct Object?
I am confused about the following sentence:
I have my hair cut.
Now here I am not sure whether "my hair" is the Direct Object (DO) of the verb "have", or if it is just the ...
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Is "of the kitten" in "the paw of the kitten" a complement to the NP or an adjunct to the DP?
I'm drawing a tree for "the paw of the kitten" (from chapter 7 of Andrew Carnie's Syntax: A Generative Introduction). This chapter is "extending X-bar theory", so please keep that ...
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Accurate English terminology for "complément du nom" and for "complément/complemento" as a general term
I am looking at this kind of French sentences:
Le directeur de la banque
Un directeur de banque
Le livre de l'élève
Le livre de français
Having done some research about English grammar terminology ...
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How is the ungrammaticality of the following sentence explained?
Maria asked I read which book
This sentence is ungrammatical.
Is this because an IP I read cannot be a complement or sister to a V asked
Is there a CP in this ungrammatical sentence?
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What is the difference between evidential, epistemic, and evaluative fragments?
Following a discussion about introductory expressions like “It is not the case that…” [1], I was found out that these expressions fall into the category of evidential/epistemic/evaluative fragments ...
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What is the name of introductory expressions like "It is not the case that..."
I'm trying to find out what is the grammatical category that corresponds to such expressions that use to introduce clauses, such as:
It is not the case that...
It is very possible that...
It is ...
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Semantic arguments of nouns
Consider the following NPs:
[1] an alcohol ban
[2] a cotton shirt
Various discussions in CGEL would seem to imply the following:
P: alcohol expresses a semantic argument of the head noun ban in [...
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The Grelling-Nelson Paradox
The following excerpt is from Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter.
Divide the adjectives in English into two categories: those which are self-descriptive, such as "...
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"Peter sang a song to Julie", Is "to Julie" is an adjunct or complement?
Peter sang a song to Julie.
It seems that the verb "sang" selects the preposition, but to Julie is optional. And if we apply it to an X' Schema, how shall we do it? To Julie is the dependent of sang ...
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How to differentiate between adjuncts and complements? Specifically when the sentence has two prepositional phrases [duplicate]
When a sentence has 2 prepositional phrases, how I can determine whether the second prepositional phrase is a complement of the first prepositional phrase or it's an adjunct to the whole sentence? ...
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