Re: [Corpora-List] Subcat Questions

From: Mike Maxwell (maxwell@ldc.upenn.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 19 2003 - 15:38:15 MET DST

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    Ute Römer wrote:
    > ... I explained verbal
    > subcategorisation frames to my intro to linguistics students this
    > morning as the combination of complements (obligatory constituents) a
    > verb (as head of a VP) takes.

    One of the differences between this idea of subcat and that in the
    earlier msg today, concerns whether subjects are subcategorized
    (previous msg) or not (above-quoted msg). This is a theoretical issue.
    Since all finite verbs in English require subjects, and since there is
    evidence that the subject is outside the VP, while all the complements
    are inside the VP, some linguists hold that subjects are not
    subcategorised. There are lots of arguments pro and con, which I won't
    go into here.

    There are also questions about whether other categories besides verbs
    have subcategorization frames (prepositions, for instance, and at least
    some adjectives).

         Mike Maxwell
         Linguistic Data Consortium
         maxwell@ldc.upenn.edu



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