Can we put event nominals to rest? (Semantics)
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The basic syntactic frame of put is X put Y to Z, and a simple paraphrase is ‘X acts on Y such that Y becomes a participant in the event Z.’ I will call Y the pivot and Z the secondary predicate (SP). Possible SPs include motion, order, power, practice, print, use, work, sleep, death, judgement, rebuke, shame. These are just the possibilities for a bare noun SP. Full NPs include (a) vote, (a) choice, and (a/an) end/halt/stop. Observation of the sorts of semantic interpretations of this construction yields two generalizations:
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تاریخ انتشار 2005