Grammar Lists

Contents:

• Adjectives complementation
• Adjectives: Irregular
• Adjectives: prepositions
• Adjectives: restricted or special -ly form
• Adverbs: Basic
• Adverbs: Flat
• Polarity sensitive items
• Prepositions
• Prepositions by complement
  • Prepositions that take finite clauses
  • Prepositions that take -ing clauses
  • Intransitive prepositions (no complement)
  • Taking PP
  • Columns in the Preposition Complement Table
• Prepositions: complex & participle-prepositions
  • List of complex prepositions
  • Explanation
  • Guide: Identifying participle-origin prepositions
  • Grammaticalization of complex prepositions
• Prepositions postposition
  • Postpositions
  • Prepositions that are both Pre & Post
• Prepositions used with relative pronouns in prepositional relatives
  • CGEL notes:
  • Multi-word prepositions
• Tense-aspect combinations with future ref
• Verbs: Catenatives
  • High frequency core set
  • Verbs whose meaning changes with the complement
• Verbs: Clause licensing cheatsheet
  • Core Principle
  • Family 1: Knowledge & belief
  • Family 2: Questions & inquiry
  • Family 3: Desire & intention
  • Family 4: Recommendation & requirement (mandative)
  • Family 5: Enjoyment, avoidance, completion
  • Family 6: Perception
  • Family 7: Causation / permission
  • High-Yield Warning List
• Verbs: Complements
  • How to read the table
  • This table is a master reference for:
• Verbs: Irregular
• Verbs: Prepositions
• Verb classes that license a secondary (object) predicatives
  • Resultative-licensing verbs
  • Change-of-state/causative verbs
  • Perception and discovery verbs
  • Evaluation/judgment verbs
  • Key CGEL point
  • Comprehensive list