LING 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Lexical Verb, Ditransitive Verb
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Predicate: lexical verb together with any dependents and/or preceding auxiliaries: the cat chased the rat, the couple down the street moved to detroit at the end of july, the meeting has been canceled. Subject: preceding the predicate: the cat chased the rat, the couple down the street moved to detroit at the end of july, the meeting has been canceled. Verb dependents: completes or adds to the meaning of a verb: do: direct object what, corresponds to the person or thing that be verbed, ex. Helen helped fred, jack wrote her parents a letter. Io: indirect object who: corresponds to the recipient in an event involving transfer of receiver of whom something is intended, ex. Gary gave his sister his old car: todd bought zack a new car, sc: subject compliment, describes subject, ex. Ida is an account: oc: object compliment describes the direct object, ex.
