Predicate Complements
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This paper briefly presents the canonical HPSG treatment of predicate complements (Section 1) and points out a number of problems with it (Section 2). Then it presents an alternative (Section 3) and shows how it avoids or solves the problems with the canonical treatment (Section 4). 1 The raising treatment of the predicate complements In mainstream HPSG predicate complements are treated along the same lines as complements of raising verbs. Prima facie evidence is provided by the minimal pairs in (1) and (2). (1) a. John seems to be a nice guy. b. John seems a nice guy. (2) a. Bob considers his brother to be a genius. b. Bob considers his brother a genius. After analogy with the analysis of (1a), in which the unexpressed subject of the VP complement is identified with the subject of the raising verb, as illustrated in (3), the NP complement in (1b) is assumed to have an unexpressed subject, which is identified with the subject of the predicate selecting verb, as illustrated in (4).1 (3) S[SUBJ , COMPS ]
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