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Publication details [#10102]

Wilkinson, Robert. 1970. Factive complements and action complements. Papers from the Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society 6 : 425–444.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English

Annotation

W. investigates the possibility of analyzing the factive complements and adjectives like 'wise', 'kind', etc. by assigning an underlying head noun 'act' (e.g. 'the act of your leaving was wise') instead of 'fact'.