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Download full textZoerner, Ed – Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1996
This paper proposes that resultative verb-particle constructions (VPCs) have an underlyingly different structure from idiomatic VPCs; both structures differ from the Small Clause analysis of R. Kayne (1985) et al and the verb-particle complex analysis of K. Johnson (1991). Empirical support for the new proposal comes from anaphor deletion facts…
Descriptors: English, Idioms, Sentence Structure, Structural Grammar
Peer reviewedEriksson, Olof – Journal of Linguistics, 1979
Examines the use of the neuter form in predicate adjectives, drawing examples from Swedish and French, and working within the framework of nexus constructions. (AM)
Descriptors: Adjectives, French, Grammar, Idioms
