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Thanks! If the complement is a valency, then I have no problem with it. Thanks again!<br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>发件人:</b> Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org> 代表 Christian Lehmann <christian.lehmann@uni-erfurt.de><br>
<b>发送时间:</b> 2023年5月9日 18:24<br>
<b>收件人:</b> lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org <lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org><br>
<b>主题:</b> Re: [Lingtyp] 回复: what is designated by a complement claus</font>
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<div class="x_moz-cite-prefix">Am 09.05.23 um 18:17 schrieb Lixin Jin:<br>
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<span class="x_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? </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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