Re: quadrivalent verb

> * Kenneth Asad said on 2008-09-29 18:05:45 +0200> > he sold the book to her
> for 20 bucks> > 'The fool bet him five quid on "The Daily Arabian" to win'> >
> > t.
I can see where you're going :-)
On the other hand, isn't the part:
  on "The Daily Arabian" to win
some kind of clause in itself?
It's a bit like the following:
  for "The Daily Arabian" to win
which wouldn't preclude it from being a fourth argument :-)
 
This of course brings me/us to a bit of a fix...
Is there any way - a test - to determine
whether a phrase is a core argument or an oblique argument?
... I'm not a linguist myself
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