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My point was that "looked after" is a prepositional verb, not a phrasal verb as was suggested in the thread. I've been trying to understand the difference. It seems that many people are not aware that there is one.
My error, I misunderstood. I know prepositional verbs as inseperable phrasal...
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the heavier the complement the more grammatical it seems
I mean heavy NP-shifting as you show in this example:
Who have we issued the new uniforms with the navy blue stripes so far this month? (OOF!)
It's better to say "Who have we issued so far this month with the new uniforms with the navy...
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Ok, here's what a friend of mine said...
1a. who did you give the book to?
1b. *who did you give the book?
1c. who was given the book?
The derivational source of (1a) is as discussed previously:
you give the book to who?
-> who did you give the book to (wh-wovement and do-support)
The...
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"Looked after" isn't a transitive phrasal verb, correct? For one thing, I can stick an adverbial between the lexical verb and the prep: Looked silently after. But I can't split it with the object as I think you can with a transitive phrasal verb: Hang up the phone. Hang the phone up.
This is...
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I'm not sure anyone has actually compiled a set of "rules"
There are many good books (and not so good books) on modal logic. Works by David Lewis such as On the plurality of worlds and a general search on "modal logic" would yield decent results.
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I don't beleive that it is proper to say that a modal has a past "tense." Modals can not be inflected for tense.
Dear Cacarr, modals can be inflected for tense but only syntactic tense.
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I got lost here. If it's not a word at this stage, but only a logical concept, how can everyone's interpretation of the word (which is not a word at this stage) be the same across all languages?
Logic does not vary across languages. So the logic of the verb "kill" would be the same in all...
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This is however ungrammatical:
-> *who did you give the book
Oh, I meant to add that its ungrammatical by my grammaticality judgment. So I try to explain its ungrammaticality from that point of view. If it's ok for you then your grammar allows to elision in actives as well.
Who did you give: a...
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Dear paco,
"who was given the book?" as a wh-question obtained by changing the subject to 'who' in "he/she was given the book"
Unlikely, what motivates the change of subject? The wh-word should already be in your derivation when you passivise the sentence.
(null) give the book to whom
-> was...
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I'll share my thoughts, albeit from a transformational standpoint, T represents traces.
The child was given to whom
-> -i was-j the child Tj given Ti
who was given to whom
-> -i was-j who Tj given Ti
*To whom was whom given?
I'd say this violates case agreement, so not grammatical for me. It...
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