The classification is based on the dichotomy of the two basic types:object-object and addressee-object. Due attention is given to the formal indications which, however, are considered secondary in importance to content. Pocheptsov advocates other criteria for their classification based on the relation between the verb and its object in the syntactic structure of the sentence. In attempting to identify the linguistic status of different kind of objects in Modern English G. And there is a system behind such developments in the structure of English different from practice in other languages.Ĭompare the use of the verbs to run and to fly in the following examples:ī) to run a factory, to run the house, to run a car into a garage ī) to fly passengers, to fly a plane, to fly a flag. Instances are not few when putting an object after the verb changes the lexical meaning of the verb. Object relations cannot be studied without a considerable reference to the lexical meaning of the verb.

It is based on different criteria which in many cases naturally leads to the overlap of indirect and prepositional classes. The trichotomic division of objects into direct, indirect and prepositional has its own demerits. g.: to show him the book - to show the book to him to give her the letter - to give the letter to her. Have two forms: prepositional and prepositionless depending on the word-order in a given phrase, e. It is to be noted, however, that the division based on the absence or presence of the preposition must be taken with an important point of reservation concerning the objects which The dichotomic classification into prepositional and prepositionless objects seems practical and useful. Regrettable mistakes occur if this is overlooked. The syntactic value of linguistic elements in a position of object is naturally conditioned by the lexical meaning of the verb, its related noun and their correlation. Structures of this sort are potentially ambiguous and are generally distinguished by rather subtle formal indications aided by lexical probability. But though English shares this feature with a number of tongues its structural development has led to such distinctive idiosyncratic traits as deserve a good deal of attention.Ī verb-phrase has frequently a dual nature of an object and an adverbial modifier. This seems to be a universal linguistic feature and may be traced in language after language. The completive bond in many, if not in all, languages covers a wide and varied range of structural meaning. The divergency of relations between verbs and their objects is manifold. The object is a linguistic unit serving to make the verb more complete, more special, or limit its sphere of distribution.

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