请教:牛津高阶词典中的Verb Pattern动词模式

一般的语法按动词类型将句型分为5种,
1.系动词:S主语+V动词+SC主语补语
2.不及物动词:S+V
3.及物动词: S+V+DO直接宾语
4.复杂及物动词: S+V+DO+OC宾语补语
5.双及物动词: S+V+IO间接宾语+DO

牛津高阶以AS Hornby提出Verb Pattern为特色,1-3版有25种VP,
其中第4版由其他人修订,改为32种模式,对这些模式有些困惑


比如Tni和Cni有什么区别,还有Tng和Cng,Tnt和Cnt,其中动词按理说都应该是复杂及物动词,后面的t,i,g是宾语补语,普通及物动词应该不能带补语吧

这32种模式都是上面5种基本句型的变体,如果不是搞专业的学术研究,不需要在这里纠结浪费时间。即使解释给你懂了,对自身的英语学习也几无帮助。

这些模式就是总结给初学者看的,我觉得这些还是很基本的,比如make sb do sth,get sb to do sth,难道你在学习make和get动词时不需要了解基本用法吗?

推荐章振邦。

上一帖的网址识别有问题,现在弄好了。

谢谢,发现知乎上有同样的问题【牛津高阶词典中及物动词与复合及物动词的这几种动词模式如何区分?】 - 知乎
https://www.zhihu.com/question/318959691

Verb Syntax in the revised Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary: Descriptive and Pedagogical Considerations

For the revised edition of OALD, the number of VPs has been reduced to 32. Why so few-or so many? The basis of the new scheme is an empirical comparative analysis of the complementation patterns of verbs. Its outcome is a framework of clause types in which similarities and differences are systematically set out. The analytical approach can be illustrated with reference to two patterns which are easily confused.

These are, first, a transitive clause whose direct object is a non-finite clause
with included noun phrase (here, Mark):

  1. I wanted [Mark to beat Bill].

and a complex-transitive clause with a noun phrase as direct object and a non-finite clause as object complement:

  1. The gang forced the porter [to hand over the keys].

Those contrastive structures (respectively coded Tnt and Cn.t) were brought to light by means of various formal tests. For instance, a pseudo-cleft construction shows NP + to-infinitive clause to be a constituent of the main clause in the first example but not in the second:

  1. a) What I wanted was Mark to beat Bill.
  2. a) * What the gang forced was the porter to hand over the keys.

Moreover, NP + to-infinitive can be passivized in the first instance but not in the second:

  1. b) I wanted Bill to be beaten by Mark.
  2. b) ? The gang forced the keys to be handed over by the porter.

The challenge was to represent the two levels of patterning faithfully and mnemonically, but by means of a simpler notation than those adopted for the dictionaries I have mentioned. As a first step, the capitals L, I, T, C and D were chosen to denote the five major classes of verb (linking, intransitive, monotransitive, complex-transitive and di- or double-transitive) made familiar to many teachers and students overseas by the Quirk grammars.

以上内容来自pdf的第4页,共7页。

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谢谢,感觉还是不清楚,好像是把使役动词和其他动词区分开来
【Tnt】 8. I wanted [Mark to beat Bill].
【Cn.t】9. The gang forced the porter [to hand over the keys].

monotransitive

A term used to describe a verb which licenses only one object (2), namely a direct object (hence monotransitive complementation), or a pattern or clause in which a verb licenses only one object; e.g.

  • We avoided the traffic
  • She raises lots of money
  • They thought that she would be late

In CGEL the term is extended to cover prepositional verbs (e.g. I refer to your letter of 4th June) and phrasal-prepositional verbs (e.g. I won’t put up with this sort of treatment).

Compare complex intransitive; complex transitive; ditransitive; intransitive; transitive.

complex transitive

A term used to describe a verb which licenses a direct object and an object-related predicative complement—hence complex transitive complementation—or a pattern or clause in which a verb licenses an object (underlined below) and an object-related predicative complement, the latter in the form of a noun phrase, adjective phrase, etc. (italicized below), e.g.

  • They made him leader
  • Let’s paint the town red

In the complex transitive pattern, the object noun phrase may or may not be directly ‘acted upon’ (i.e. carry the semantic role of patient). However, the object, and what follows it, are in a semantic (but not grammatical) subject-predicate relationship (indicated by underlining below), e.g.

  • They painted the house blue
  • We watched him leave
  • I knew him to be a crook
  • They made him pay
  • I saw him arrested

There are considerable differences of analysis here: in some frameworks the verbs in these constructions are would be considered ordinary transitive or catenative verbs followed by a direct object and a complement clause. In other frameworks the underlined strings are clauses.

Compare complementation; complex intransitive; ditransitive; intransitive; monotransitive; transitive.

以上内容来自 The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar (2 ed.)

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