Verb-Complementation
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The current paper investigates the plausibility of the claim that the complementation patterns of an adjective can resemble that of a verb as well as its compliance with the rules of Present-Day English. The results of the research... more
This monograph (co-authored with prof. Mukhadin Kumakhov) is a study of complementation in Kabardian, a language belonging to the West Caucasian group. For the first time subordinate clauses in Kabardian are analysed in the framework of a... more
Old English verbs exhibit enormous variability as far as their complementation frames are concerned. This variability concerns not only the available object types but also their number; to the effect that one and the same verb may appear... more
The current paper investigates the plausibility of the claim that the complementation patterns of an adjective can resemble that of a verb as well as its compliance with the rules of Present-Day English. The results of the research... more
The objective of the paper is to show that the available complementation patterns of OE verbs do not, pace Visser (1963-73), constitute a haphazard set. In the course of the paper it will be shown that the system of ditransitive... more
Selon les modèles et théories adoptés, la complémentation en tant que concept peut prendre des formes très diverses. Ainsi la notion de complément et celle d’argument ne renvoient pas forcément aux mêmes réalités linguistiques même si,... more