Linguistics
88 Citations•1973•
Paul M. Russian
Abstracts in Anthropology
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Abstract
3225. Babcock, Susan Scharf. PARAPHRASTIC CONNATIVES. Foundations of Language. 1972,8(1):3043. It is argued that some surface complex sentences are simplex in deep structure. Paraphrastic causatives like "Fear made John tremble" are simplex sentences in deep structure. (The framework is a Fillmorean case grammar.) Their apparent complex structure is to be explained by rules which derive "make" from NP's in the CA USE case. The analysis is also proposed for manner adverbs and their paraphrases: "John learns slowly," "John is a slow learner," etc.