Practical Grammar 6

Governable grammatical functions

There are different types of grammatical functions. One type we have already seen, those grammatical functions which are listed in the PRED values of meaningful words. The textbook (p. 21) gives a complete list:

Governable grammatical functions: SUBJ, OBJ, OBJ-theta, OBL-theta, POSS, COMP, and XCOMP.