Subject and Verbs Prepositional Verbs
Context:
Introduction
The subject rule
Multi-word verbs
Phrasal verbs
Prepositional verbs
Phrasal-prepositional verbs
Multi-word verbs compared to verb + PP combinations
Intransitive verbs
Intransitive vs. causative verbs
Copula constructions
Different phrase types used as complement
Refrences
Verb complementation types A clause consists basically of the predicate verb and its complements (additional expressions needed to ‘complete’ the sense of the main verb). The relationship between the main verb and its complements reflects the relationship between an action, the participants in the action and various accompanying circumstances: The dog was chasing the cat across the lawn. We can recognise a number of different complementation patterns related to different verb types. Common to these complementation patterns is that they all conform to the subject rule.
The subject rule: Each finite declarative clause must have a subject, which precedes the predicate verb. On the basis of the number of complements of a verb (including the subject), we can recognize one-place, two-place etc. verbs. On the basis of the type of complementation, we recognize different types oftransitivity of the verb: intransitive
S V The tree fell. intransitive S V A The car is in the garage. copula S V sC The sky was dark. monotransitive1 S V dO She washed the car. monotransitive2 S V dO A She keeps the car in the garage. ditransitive S V iO dO He sent her a fax. complex-transitive S V dO oP She made him unhappy.
Multi-word verbs : In addition to the clause-level complements mentioned above, EUG also takes up certain forms which can be added to verb stems to form multi-word verbs. We can recognize the following types: phrasal verbs prepositional verbs phrasal-prepositional verbs. Phrasal verbs: A phrasal verb is made up of a lexical verb plus a particle (in EUG
Introduction
The subject rule
Multi-word verbs
Phrasal verbs
Prepositional verbs
Phrasal-prepositional verbs
Multi-word verbs compared to verb + PP combinations
Intransitive verbs
Intransitive vs. causative verbs
Copula constructions
Different phrase types used as complement
Refrences
Verb complementation types A clause consists basically of the predicate verb and its complements (additional expressions needed to ‘complete’ the sense of the main verb). The relationship between the main verb and its complements reflects the relationship between an action, the participants in the action and various accompanying circumstances: The dog was chasing the cat across the lawn. We can recognise a number of different complementation patterns related to different verb types. Common to these complementation patterns is that they all conform to the subject rule.
The subject rule: Each finite declarative clause must have a subject, which precedes the predicate verb. On the basis of the number of complements of a verb (including the subject), we can recognize one-place, two-place etc. verbs. On the basis of the type of complementation, we recognize different types oftransitivity of the verb: intransitive
S V The tree fell. intransitive S V A The car is in the garage. copula S V sC The sky was dark. monotransitive1 S V dO She washed the car. monotransitive2 S V dO A She keeps the car in the garage. ditransitive S V iO dO He sent her a fax. complex-transitive S V dO oP She made him unhappy.
Multi-word verbs : In addition to the clause-level complements mentioned above, EUG also takes up certain forms which can be added to verb stems to form multi-word verbs. We can recognize the following types: phrasal verbs prepositional verbs phrasal-prepositional verbs. Phrasal verbs: A phrasal verb is made up of a lexical verb plus a particle (in EUG