[Lingtyp] 回复: what is designated by a complement claus

[Christian Lehmann]

Am 09.05.23 um 18:17 schrieb Lixin Jin:
>
> 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?
>
I follow the definition given in Peter H. Matthews's book on /Syntax/: 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.
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.
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