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Om preposisjonens syntaktiske status i de såkalte ≪transitive verbalgrupper≫ i norsk*
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 December 2008
Abstract
The present article aims to show that the prepositions in so-called “transitive verb groups” in Norwegian, like, e.g., på and til in passe på and ta hensyn til, respectively, are not to be conflated with the real verb particles in cases like drikke opp etc. The two groups of words have quite distinct semantico syntactic properties. In particular, the NP constituent in cases like drikke opp vinen is subject to the well-known non-specificity condition at work in Norwegian impersonal passive constructions with a purely formal subject det, whereas its counterpart in cases like passe på hunden is not. This difference is readily accounted for if it is assumed that prepositions are a rudimentary species of one-place predicates, where the one argument to be found cannot be classified as either a logical or syntactic subject or object.
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