Example: air traffic controller
Verbs And Verb Phrases Introduction
Found 2 free book(s)The Meaning of Language - Harvard University
scholar.harvard.edu• Di#erent kinds of verbs take a di#erent number of NPs as arguments—each verb takes a subject and: – Intransitive verbs such as sleep take no other arguments – Transitive verbs such as find take an additional argument (a direct object) – Ditransitive verbs such as give take two additional arguments (direct and indirect objects)
Syntax: The Sentence Patterns of Language
scholar.harvard.edu• Verbs also select subjects and complements based on semantic properties (S-selection) – The verb murder requires a human subject and object!The beer murdered the lamp. – The verb drink requires its subject to be animate and its optional complement object to …