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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 09.05.23 um 18:17 schrieb Lixin Jin:<br>
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<span class="ContentPasted0" lang="EN-US">Thank you, Sir!
Sorry, maybe there was a problem with my formulation. I
meant that both attributive and adverbial have operational
definitions, for example, attributive is a modifier of a
noun, and adverbial is a modifier of a verb. What about
complements?<o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span><br>
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I follow the definition given in Peter H. Matthews's book on <i>Syntax</i>:
A complement is a dependent provided for in the valency of its head.
The head is most often thought to be a verb, but can be anything
that has valency.<br>
Neither this definition nor the ones mentioned by you are
operational. The criteria for the analysis of a dependency relation
as a complement relation (i.e. the criteria for valency), as well as
for its analysis as a modifying relation, are a different problem,
also treated by Matthews.<br>
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