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Transitive Verb Particle: Tnx0Vplnx1
- Description:
- Verb/verb particle combinations that take an NP
complement select this tree family. Both the verb and the verb
particle are anchors of the trees. Particle movement has been taken
as the diagnostic to distinguish verb particle constructions from
intransitives with adjoined PP's. If the alleged particle is able
to undergo particle movement, in other words appear both before and
after the direct object, then it is judged to be a particle. Items
that do not undergo particle movement are taken to be prepositions.
In many, but not all, of the verb particle cases, there is also an
alternate prepositional meaning in which the lexical item did not
move. (e.g. He looked up the number (in the phonebook). He looked the number up. Srini looked up the road (for Purnima's car). He looked the road up.) There are 489 verb/verb
particle combinations.
- Examples:
- blow off, make up, pick out
He blew off his linguistics class for the third time .
He blew his linguistics class off for the third time .
The dyslexic leprechaun made up the syntactic lexicon .
The dyslexic leprechaun made the syntactic lexicon up .
I would like to pick out a new computer .
I would like to pick a new computer out .
- Declarative tree:
- See Figure 6.9.
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- {Declarative Transitive Verb Particle Tree: $\alpha$nx0Vplnx1~(a) and $\alpha$nx0Vnx1pl~(b)
- Other available trees:
- wh-moved subject with particle before the NP,
wh-moved subject with particle after the NP, wh-moved object, subject
relative clause with particle before the NP with and without comp, subject relative clause with
particle after the NP with and without comp, object relative clause with and without comp,
adjunct (gap-less) relative clause with particle before the NP with comp/with PP pied-piping,
adjunct (gap-less) relative clause with particle after the NP with comp/with PP pied-piping,
imperative with particle before the NP, imperative with particle after the NP, determiner gerund
with particle before the NP, NP gerund with particle before the NP, NP
gerund with particle after the NP, passive with by phrase, passive
without by phrase, passive with wh-moved subject and by phrase,
passive with wh-moved subject and no by phrase, passive with wh-moved
object out of the by phrase, passive with wh-moved by phrase,
passive with relative clause on subject and by phrase with and without comp, passive with
relative clause on subject and no by phrase with and without comp, passive with relative
clause on object of the by phrase with and without comp/with PP pied-piping,
passive with/without by-phrase with adjunct (gap-less) relative clause
with comp/with PP pied-piping, gerund passive with by
phrase, gerund passive without by phrase.
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