Verb Complements

• Verb Complementation Patterns:

  The SPECIALIST lexicon recognizes five basic categories of verb, depending on the complements they take: intransitive, transitive, ditransitive, linking, and complex-transitive.

  • intransitive
  • transitive
  • ditransitive
  • linking
  • complex-transitive

• Verb Complements:

  Twelve different codes are used to characterize the complements for which the verb is subcategorized.

  • Noun Phrase Complements
  • Prepositional Phrase Complements
  • Adjective Complements
  • Adverbial Complements
  • Non-Finite Clause Complements
    • Infinitive clauses Complements
    • Bare Infinitive clauses Complements
    • Present participle clauses Complements
    • Past participle clauses Complements
  • Finite Clause Complements
  • WH Complement Clauses
    • WH finite clauses Complements
    • WH infinitive clauses Complements
  • As Absolute Clause Complements