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Heads and complements

Heads and complements. Kuiper and Allan Chapter 8.1.1. What are complements in general?. Complements include: objects direct indirect intensive complements They are required by the head to complete its meaning. Subcategories of heads.

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Heads and complements

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  1. Heads and complements Kuiper and Allan Chapter 8.1.1

  2. What are complements in general? • Complements include: • objects • direct • indirect • intensive complements • They are required by the head to complete its meaning.

  3. Subcategories of heads • Heads of phrase belong to subcategories on the basis of the kind of complements they take. • Transitive verbs take objects. • massage • Intransitive verbs do not. • sleep • Some verbs take double objects. • buy

  4. Verbs subcategorize for complementizers • Data • Max understood that Joanna had driven his sportscar. • *Max understood whether Joanna had driven his sportcar. • *Max didn't understand whether Joanna had driven his sportscar. • Max didn't know whether Joanna had driven his sportscar.

  5. Complementizers subcategorize for the tense of their complement clause • Data • The committee intended for John to come. • The committee intended that John might come. • *The committee intended that John to come. • *The committee intended for John might come.

  6. Finite and non-finite clauses • Finite clauses are tensed, e.g. the contain either a modal auxiliary or past or present tense forms. • Non-finite clauses do not contain either a modal or past or present tense forms. • Non-finite clauses often have to in the place of tense.

  7. Representing the structure of non-finite verb phrases VP LexV to swim

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