I often sport a bow tie at formal events. I like bow ties because I think they look good, and even I can’t inflict food stains a bow tie. I order all my bow ties from a Vermont company named Beau Ties ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Italian sentences which appear to lack propositional arguments of verbs are shown to be base-generated without these verb complements. This ...

IN last week's column, we looked at how inverted sentences allow us to abandon the normal subject-verb-complement (S-V/C) sequence so we can deliver the verb or its complement wherever we feel it can ...

WE have already taken up how inverted sentences depart from the normal sentence-verb-complement pattern (S-V/C) to put the verb or its complement wherever it can do its work best in the sentence, and ...

Recall that arguments are not ordered in proposition structure. Lexical insertion does not assign the order and the exact position of an argument. Syntax established the word order of complement to ...

One of the pleasures of writing is being able to share not only information and ideas, but also one's feelings. But those are ...

Sometime ago, a student in Cambodia preparing for a special English-language scholarship test sent me an e-mail expressing puzzlement over these two sentences: "Particularly unfortunate was my failure ...