Exercise 3
Determine the subcategory of the verbs in the following sentences. Justify your choice with the help of different distributional tests. Finally, give their syntactic structure as well.
| (1) | a | A face appeared behind the window. |
| b | Susan sang. | |
| c | Michael moved my map from the middle. | |
| d | The bomb blew up. | |
| e | Larry laughed. | |
| f | Kevin killed Karen. | |
| g | Ben brought a bulldog for Betty. | |
| h | Norah knows Nick. | |
| i | The boat sank. | |
| j | The letter lay on the table. | |
| k | The window opened. | |
| l | A train arrived at the station. | |
| m | Walt watered the flowers. | |
| n | Dick died. | |
| o | Gary gave Greg a gift. |