Intransitive Verb Particle: Tnx0Vpl

Description:

The trees in this tree family are anchored by both the verb and the verb particle. Both appear in the syntactic lexicon and together select this tree family. Intransitive verb particles can be difficult to distinguish from intransitive verbs with adverbs adjoined on. The main diagnostics for including verbs in this class are whether the meaning is compositional or not, and whether there is a transitive version of the verb/verb particle combination with the same or similar meaning. The existence of an alternate compositional meaning is a strong indication for a separate verb particle construction. There are 159 verb/verb particle combinations.

Examples:

add up, come out, sign off
The numbers never quite added up .
John finally came out (of the closet) .
I think that I will sign off now .

Declarative tree:

See Figure 6.7.

  

Figure: Declarative Intransitive Verb Particle Tree: $\alpha$nx0Vpl

Other available trees:

wh-moved subject, subject relative clause with and without comp, adjunct (gap-less) relative clause with comp/with PP pied-piping, imperative, determiner gerund, NP gerund.