LINB06H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ditransitive Verb, Subcategorization, Extended Projection Principle

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Determines the number and type of complements that a verb (or another category) may take. # of complements : a verb can take 0,1 or 2 complements. Type of complements: a verb can take a dp, a pp or a cp complement. Intransitive verbs verbs that take no complements: e. g. sourire/smile, rire/laugh, ternuer/sneeze. Transitive verbs verbs that take one complement: e. g. voir/see, manger/eat, aimer/love, frapper/hit, tuer/kill. Ditransitive verbs verbs that take two complements: e. g. ask/demander, put/mettre, give/donner, tell/raconter. Also determines which complement is optional or not. Optional complements are represented by parentheses: e. g. eat: v. Determine semantic restrictions on what can appear in both the object and subject positions of a sentence. * my pencil hates syntax: this is ungrammatical for semantic reasons, but there"s nothing wrong with c-selection. Encodes these semantic or sectional restrictions using thematic roles (theta role: used to describe the semantic roles that subjects & objects play in a sentence.

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