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• Object
  '''Object''' is a complement which is selected and directly governed by a lexical head. The term '''object''' is sometimes used as a general term for a non-[[subject]] [[argument]].
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• Complement (predicative)
  The term '''complement''' is sometimes used to denote the grammatical function of predicative phra Subject complement: ''The country became '''independent'''.''
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• Object control verb
  ...quires that the NP must [[control]] the [[PRO]] subject of the infinitival complement. [http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Object+control+verb&lemmacode=463 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]
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• Affected object
  '''Affected object''' is a [[object]] that is affected by the action expressed by the [[verb]]. ...affected object. A verb like ''eat'' is called an affectedness verb. The [[complement]] ''the wagon'' in ''he loaded the wagon with hay'' is called totally affec
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• Noun clause
  ...ly as an [[argument]], so that ''noun clause'' is basically a synonym of [[complement clause]]. ...rger sentence...the same functions as noun phrases, i.e. those of subject, object, etc."'' (Göksel & Kerslake 2005:404)
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• SPOAC model
  |'''[[O]]'''||[[object]] |'''[[Od]]'''||[[direct object]]
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• Subcategorization
  ...in terms of the phrasal categories (NP, PP, etc.) which they select as a [[complement]]. Sometimes strict subcategorization is equated with [[c-selection]]. .... The object subcategorizes the verb, or the verb is subcategorized by the object.
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• Exceptional Case Marking
  ...nal) capacity to govern the embedded subject position of their infinitival complement. ...counted for in terms of [[CP-reduction]] (S-bar-deletion). As a result the complement does not constitute a [[barrier]] to [[government]].
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• Term (in relational grammar)
  ...[grammatical relation]] of subject ("1"), direct object ("2"), or indirect object ("3"). Non-terms are [[oblique(2)]]s or [[chomeur]]s (Blake 1990:1). Term roughly corresponds to [[actant]], [[argument]], or [[complement]] in other terminological traditions. However, oblique arguments as in ''re
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• Pseudo-passive
  ...n treat the [[NP]] [[complement]] of the preposition as a kind of [[direct object]] and [[promote]] it to [[subject]]. Compare the following examples from [[
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• Grammatical function (LFG)
  Grammatical functions are ''[[subject]] of'', ''[[object]] of'', ''[[complement]] of'', ''[[head]] of'', etc., which in [[configurational language]]s corre
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• Passive
  '''Passive''' is a construction in which the [[logical object]] shows up as the [[grammatical subject]], while the [[logical subject]] is ...ptional adjunct, passive morphology on the verb, no Case assignment to the object possible, etc.), all of which can be separately present or absent in a give
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• Complement
  ...ct]] of a given [[predicate]] is regarded as an [[argument]], but not as a complement of that predicate. ...[head]] and H' the [[projection]] of H. According to [[X-bar theory]], the complement of a [[head]] X⁰ is defined either as a position attached or [[a
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• Metarules
  ...passive verb form accompanied by the same phrases, except that the direct object replaced by an optional PP: The ''Complement Omission Metarule'' deletes the complements of a noun,
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• Subject control verb
  ...[[control]]s the [[reference]] of the [[PRO]] subject of its infinitival [[complement]], the verb is called a '''subject control verb'''. ..., but the verb ''order'' in (i)b and ''force'' in (i)c are not (they are [[object control verb]]s).
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• Tough-movement
  ...criterion]]) to assume that the subject ''John'' has been moved out of the object position e_iof please: The object of ''to please'', then, is a variable bound by the [[empty operator]] O whi
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• Topic
  *Using [[passive voice]] to transform an [[object (grammar)|object]] into a subject (for the above reason). ...object of a verb, but it can also be an indirect object or even an oblique complement of any kind. It is always dislocated to the front of the sentence.
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• Restructuring
  In (i) it would be impossible to move the object ''queste case'' from the embedded clause into the matrix subject position, ...n analysis in which [[L-marking]] basically cancels the barrierhood of the complement clause, which otherwise would block clitic climbing. Clitic climbing then r
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• Irish
  ...is told’), but it is not a passive in form as its [[argument]] is a direct object, not a subject. ...eposition ''le'' ‘with’ has the following forms when it takes a pronominal object:
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