Timeline for What part of speech does the word warm function as in the expression "stay warm"?
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| Feb 17, 2015 at 15:35 | comment | added | John Lawler | Calling them "linking verbs" because they don't use to and then saying they're no different from other linking verbs in lacking to is not a helpful approach. This is one reason linguists don't normally use the term. | |
| Feb 17, 2015 at 9:35 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | @JohnLawler No more unusual than any other linking verb, surely? Stay/remain/keep/be/get/appear warm … | |
| Feb 15, 2015 at 18:52 | comment | added | John Lawler | A separate issue is why there is no infinitive complementizer to be required with stay warm, like there is in continue/want/desire/intend/remember/try to be warm, or a gerund be, like stop/finish/remember/try being warm. Stay seems unusual in this property. | |
| Feb 15, 2015 at 16:51 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | ... as opposed to humorous creative interpretation? | |
| Feb 15, 2015 at 16:18 | history | edited | John Lowell | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 15, 2015 at 15:48 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | It's no different to other imperatives such as "Be quiet!" or "Get real!". It would take some serious creative interpretation to parse those commands if they used explicitly adverbial forms, but there are some constructions where both work. You can certainly use "Come quickly!" and "Come quick!" more or less interchangeably. | |
| Feb 15, 2015 at 15:43 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | It's an ordinary adjective acting as a subject-oriented complement of the verb stay predicated of the implicit subject you. | |
| Feb 15, 2015 at 15:43 | answer | added | bib | timeline score: 1 | |
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| Feb 15, 2015 at 15:37 | history | asked | John Lowell | CC BY-SA 3.0 |