Syntactic function vpostadVtoN

verb modifying a preceding transitive verb with its nominal object

These adverbs (which one might also conveniently subsume simply under vtpostadV, of which categoy it is a subtype), are all amenable to an analysis where the co-called postposed adverb is taken as a verb with a nominalised verb phrase or sentence as its subject.


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