consider Sentences Reconsidered in the Light of Greek Evidence
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English sentences such as I consider John smart have long presented analytic ambiguity between a “small clause” analysis and a “predication” analysis, and the apparently equivalent sentence-type in Greek, e.g. presents similar problems. Here it is argued that additional evidence from each language, involving constructions that are sensitive to the thematicity of an object NP, shows that these superficially similar sentences are actually best treated as being structurally quite different, with a small clause analysis working better for Greek, and a predication analysis for English, based on these further facts.
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