ABSTRACT
We have already seen in the previous chapter that the semantic distinction between participants (complements) and non-participants (adjuncts) has syntactic consequences. For instance, we saw that the closer semantic relationship between a verb and its complements results in the complements staying closer to the verb than any adjuncts. Indeed, we used this as a syntactic test (see Chapter 9, Section 9.3) to tell complements and adjuncts apart. Consider the ambiguous sentence Tom baked a cake for Susan
