Accounting for the Semantics of the NP V NP Construction in English

In English the NP1 V NP2 construction typically involves arguments that are construed as Agent and Patient, or Subject Object. It is associated with notion of transitivity analyzed accordingly, even when it exhibits only syntactic properties but not its semantic characteristics. This phenomenon well-known has been accounted for by linguists (Lakoff 1977; Hopper Thompson 1980, among others) a result absence some prototypical transitive features in utterance. paper aims at demonstrating structure value conveys general abstract sense, which represents one particular realization whose occurrence determined aspectual context. will be argued sense this can explained through concepts usually used description utterances, namely conjunction disjunction. examples, subject enters relation disjunction object. others, other way round.