Syntactic function vttoN.+V[0]
ditranstive verb with a nominal object, this construction preceding and in construction with a verbal expression
This category assembles structurally similar verbs all of which are similarly hard to analyse. The question how exactly an analysis of pivotal constructions should proceed remains highly sensitive and deserves much more discussion. However, the words that will need to be discussed in this connection are assembled in this category. There are many instances where the role of TLS can only be to identify examples relevant to problem areas for analysis and examples of probematic "isopmorphic" phenomena, rather than solving the problems raised by these phenomena. The identification of structurally similar sets is in itself only a first step. But it is a necessary step. Close analysis will probably show that much of what is called pivotal here is not really pivotal.
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