Questions tagged [predicatives]
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Detached Predicative with NONFINITE Clauses
I have just stumbled upon a sentence:
Dressed in a white dress, Stella looked breathtakingly beautiful.
I was wondering if the very first part of the sentence (Dressed in a white dress-nonfinite "...
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Do active predicates and their passive equivalents have different numbers of arguments?
What are some examples of active predicates in English that have different arguments when rewritten in their passive form?
I guess an active predicate is "He eats the rice" and the passive ...
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Difference between primary and secundary predicates(/argument small clauses) and their (overt) 'heads', and transition/ambiguity between the two
What is the exact difference between primary and secundary predicates?
From what I understood, primary predicates are verbal and have a predicate head (usually a copula - he was a mine worker). ...
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What is the meaning of "interface-interpretable features"?
In multiple sources, I encountered the term interface-interpretable features. From the contexts, I can deduct that the meaning might be somewhere in the sense of "visible [as in, morphologically/...
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Meaning of superscript numbering in phrase structure trees
In some recent studies, I stumbled upon some seemingly conventional notation that I do not understand.
In syntax structure trees, I often encounter superscript notations in various forms: $T^0$, $...
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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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Resultative secondary predicate
In the sentence 'John entered the room angry', can 'angry' be considered a resultative predicate? This sentence has the same construction as 'John painted the door green', but while 'green' describes ...
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Are there any universals about how m-case can pattern for predicate NPs?
Predicate noun phrases (NPs) have different patterns of case in different languages.
Even closely related languages can show significant differences (Sigurðsson 2008). For example, among the Germanic ...
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Why do so many grammars divide a clause into Subject and Verb instead of Subject and Predicative?
I used to start learning a few languages, admittingly my interest ,stamina and brain force didn't last for more than a couple of days each.
Nethertheless, I noticed , that the different grammars ...
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conjunctions or enumerations inside a sentence make multiple predicates [closed]
please tell me if in the following example:
The tree is characterized by long, strong roots.
Does the enumeration generate two nested (recursion) sentences?
1. The tree is characterized by long ...
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On the Predicate Internal Subject Hypothesis and DP Predicates
One standard assumption is that the subject of a clause originates from the specifier of its predicate, following the predicate internal subject hypothesis. For example, the subject of a simple ...
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What's a good test to distinguish past participles from predicate adjectives?
Most past participles can act as predicate adjectives:
"The island was inhabited."
but there are some words that may look like both parts of speech, but can only be used in one way or the other:
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Are there any languages that mark predicative and attributive adjectives differently?
For example:
distal dog ugly-ADJ.PRED 'yon dog is ugly'
would be distinct from:
distal dog ugly-ADJ.ATTR 'yon ugly dog'
I wonder if this is attested in the world's languages, and if not, if it ...
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The contrast between predicative and ordinary
Predicative elements can also be adjuncts as in He wrote most of his poetry drunk: the contrast between predicative and ordinary (non-predicative) thus cuts across that between complements and ...
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Do predicative adjuncts modify nouns or verbs?
iii) He died young. They served the coffee blindfolded. iv) Furious,
he stormed out of the room.
The AdjPs in [iii-iv] function as predicative adjunct. Those in [iii]
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Predication in X-Bar theory
Where do predicatives (predicative adjectives and nominals) over the subject or over the object fit into an X-bar-tree?
For instance:
Pedro pintó a María sentada.
Peter painted Mary seated. (=...
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