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Inchoateknowledge Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

small clause, resultative

1.(a)  I want [PP him out of my sight]
  (b) They consider [NP him a fine teacher]

2. a. small clause, 
   b. resultative

Question:
- Could anyone , please, explain to me what the above grammatical terms mean with an illustration.
- Why [PP him out of my sight] is a PP and [NP him a fine teacher] is not?
- Are the underlined parts heads in the phrases?

  

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Hello IK May I ask you? Where did you meet those terms...? )

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Hello IK

May I ask you? Where did you meet those terms...?

?? (I'm just curious.)
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Milky wrote my sentence contains a resultative, and I have a vague recollection of resultatives being small clauses.

"I should have known better than having asked someone like Mary for money"
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This was the full sentence:

Having asked someone like Mary for money, I now feel foolish.
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How vague is your recollection? You seem to know where the link is:

http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Resultative&lemmacode=343

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MilkyHow vague is your recollection? You seem to know where the link is:

http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Resultative&lemmacode=343
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So could anybody answer my questions?
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I'm not a specialist, but I've just checked The companion to the English language and linguistic terms, and then found a related website. I hope it would be of some help.

[link]http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~roberto/layers/sc.html[/link]

(My Companion said "There is no ag
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(Sorry for my double posting...)
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thanks.
The chief reason I asked for the definitions was that I have already heard of resultatives and I knew they are small clauses, but when searching for the term I came across the site Milky managed to find as well:
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