Timeline for Verb-ing followed by isolated adjective
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| May 4, 2022 at 8:57 | comment | added | tabtob | Thank you so much for all the detailed explanations! They are really helpful, and I could learn even more from them. | |
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| Apr 24, 2022 at 14:33 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Verbs like 'make' (He made me angry / an angry man) are known as causative verbs, and verbs like 'call', 'dub' are called factitive verbs. If 'declare' here is seen to be a performative speech act as with 'The vicar pronounced them man and wife' (so they now actually were man and wife), it is also causative. Linking verbs? A term rarely used in higher analysis. But they certainly exhibit the NP1 + V{ed} + NP2 + Complement structure, as with the object-orientated resultative 'He hammered the metal flat'. | |
| Apr 24, 2022 at 12:26 | comment | added | BillJ | If one assumes that "righteous" refers to an ellipted person or entity, then that ellipted NP is effectively the object of "declaring/making" and "righteous" is thus an adjectival objective PC (predicative complement) of "declaring/making". | |
| Apr 24, 2022 at 9:51 | comment | added | Dat Boi | Sorry, just one more bit of info. This source explains it quite well. If you can replace the verb with "is" and the sentence still makes sense, then you can probably assume it is a linking verb. E.g. "The action is righteous in the sight of God" still works, but, "My friend is over-the-top" loses the sentence meaning. | |
| Apr 24, 2022 at 9:45 | comment | added | Dat Boi | Where it wouldn't be accurate applies in this sentence: "My friend was declaring that the rules were over-the-top". This sentence explicitly implies that the action was 'declaring' over the noun as "over-the-top" and it was not the subject of the sentence. | |
| Apr 24, 2022 at 9:42 | comment | added | Dat Boi | A linking verb can also be an action verb, not always, but in this case it is appropriate. "Declaring" an action as "Righteous", identitifies the condition of the action. So this structure is correct and righteous is a predicative adjective of "the action". | |
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