1. Introduction Verbs such as prevent, keep, prohibit and forbid constitute a syntactic class in that they take complements of the form [NP from V-ing] (hereafter "from V-ing complement"): ...
1. Introduction It is one of the hard problems in linguistics how to analyze colloquial and idiomatic expressions in an appropriate way. Being faced with idioms, one might be tempted just to leave them out of consideration because of their devianc...