How transitivity is defined in the Cambridge Grammar
This question is specifically for those who are familiar with The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language.
The book has this passage at page 272:
Strictly speaking, an intransitive preposition may have a complement other than an object NP – e.g. owing in owing to the rain has a PP complement. In this section, however, we will be concerned only with intransitive prepositions that have either no complement at all or else a predicative, as in That counts [as satisfactory].
The book also says that prepositions can take finite clauses as complements as follows:
They ignored the question [of whether it was ethical]. (page 641)
Here, does the book consider the of an intransitive preposition because it doesn't take an object NP but just a clause as a complement?
Also, how about verbs taking finite clauses as non-object complements?
The book in 1017-1018:
In the present subsection we turn our attention to content clauses functioning as internal complement to a verb, as in He feared that he might lose his job ([16i]). Traditional grammar not only analyses the subordinate clause here as a noun clause, but assigns it the same function as that of the NP in He feared the prospect of unemployment, namely that of object of the verb. Again, however, we believe that the subordinate clause is not sufficiently like an NP to justify that analysis.
Does the book consider the feared an intransitive verb?
objects complements intransitive-verbs
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This question is specifically for those who are familiar with The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language.
The book has this passage at page 272:
Strictly speaking, an intransitive preposition may have a complement other than an object NP – e.g. owing in owing to the rain has a PP complement. In this section, however, we will be concerned only with intransitive prepositions that have either no complement at all or else a predicative, as in That counts [as satisfactory].
The book also says that prepositions can take finite clauses as complements as follows:
They ignored the question [of whether it was ethical]. (page 641)
Here, does the book consider the of an intransitive preposition because it doesn't take an object NP but just a clause as a complement?
Also, how about verbs taking finite clauses as non-object complements?
The book in 1017-1018:
In the present subsection we turn our attention to content clauses functioning as internal complement to a verb, as in He feared that he might lose his job ([16i]). Traditional grammar not only analyses the subordinate clause here as a noun clause, but assigns it the same function as that of the NP in He feared the prospect of unemployment, namely that of object of the verb. Again, however, we believe that the subordinate clause is not sufficiently like an NP to justify that analysis.
Does the book consider the feared an intransitive verb?
objects complements intransitive-verbs
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This question is specifically for those who are familiar with The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language.
The book has this passage at page 272:
Strictly speaking, an intransitive preposition may have a complement other than an object NP – e.g. owing in owing to the rain has a PP complement. In this section, however, we will be concerned only with intransitive prepositions that have either no complement at all or else a predicative, as in That counts [as satisfactory].
The book also says that prepositions can take finite clauses as complements as follows:
They ignored the question [of whether it was ethical]. (page 641)
Here, does the book consider the of an intransitive preposition because it doesn't take an object NP but just a clause as a complement?
Also, how about verbs taking finite clauses as non-object complements?
The book in 1017-1018:
In the present subsection we turn our attention to content clauses functioning as internal complement to a verb, as in He feared that he might lose his job ([16i]). Traditional grammar not only analyses the subordinate clause here as a noun clause, but assigns it the same function as that of the NP in He feared the prospect of unemployment, namely that of object of the verb. Again, however, we believe that the subordinate clause is not sufficiently like an NP to justify that analysis.
Does the book consider the feared an intransitive verb?
objects complements intransitive-verbs
asked 8 mins ago
JK2JK2
14711651
This question is specifically for those who are familiar with The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language.
The book has this passage at page 272:
Strictly speaking, an intransitive preposition may have a complement other than an object NP – e.g. owing in owing to the rain has a PP complement. In this section, however, we will be concerned only with intransitive prepositions that have either no complement at all or else a predicative, as in That counts [as satisfactory].
The book also says that prepositions can take finite clauses as complements as follows:
They ignored the question [of whether it was ethical]. (page 641)
Here, does the book consider the of an intransitive preposition because it doesn't take an object NP but just a clause as a complement?
Also, how about verbs taking finite clauses as non-object complements?
The book in 1017-1018:
In the present subsection we turn our attention to content clauses functioning as internal complement to a verb, as in He feared that he might lose his job ([16i]). Traditional grammar not only analyses the subordinate clause here as a noun clause, but assigns it the same function as that of the NP in He feared the prospect of unemployment, namely that of object of the verb. Again, however, we believe that the subordinate clause is not sufficiently like an NP to justify that analysis.
Does the book consider the feared an intransitive verb?
objects complements intransitive-verbs
objects complements intransitive-verbs
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