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In the spirit of traditional subcategorization frames, we have been assuming that categories other than NPs can be arguments. For verbs like be, go and put in (1), it is the entire PP in crates or into crates and not the inner NP crates that is the verb’s argument.
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Randall, J.H. (2010). Eliminating the Direct/Indirect Internal Argument Distinction. In: Linking. Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, vol 74. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8308-2_3
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