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Preliminary Recommendations
Since we are only concerned with subcategorisation, only
subcategorisable functions are taken into consideration.
- Necessary specifications
- -- The subject/complement and
predicative distinctions. All the theories we have reviewed make
use of these differences.
- Recommended specification
- -- A further partition of
complements into direct (DCOMP) and indirect (ICOMP). LFG, UCG and
HPSG use this difference.
- Useful
- -- A more fine-grained distinction à la
LFG, introducing further labels for clausal complements (COMP,
XCOMP) and second objects (OBJ2).