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

[Lixin Jin]

Thanks! If the complement is a valency, then I have no problem with it. Thanks again!

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

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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