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Consider sentence (1):
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… an official almost talked Mrs. Steuer out of withdrawing her account, … (TIME, 1931)
Sentence (1) illustrates a pattern of verb complementation: the matrix verb talk selects three arguments, a subject NP, realized by an official, a direct object NP, realized by Mrs. Steuer, and a prepositional phrase, realized by out of withdrawing her account. The latter two constituents are the complements of talk in the sentence.
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© 2011 Martti Juhani Rudanko
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Rudanko, J. (2011). Tracking and Explaining the Transitive out of -ing Pattern in Recent and Current English. In: Changes in Complementation in British and American English. Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230305199_5
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