Definitions
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- noun (Linguistics) the grammatical relation of a word or phrase to a predicate.
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replacement of aset by itscomplement - noun genetics The
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relationship of aphrase to itspredicate
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- noun (linguistics) a distribution of related speech sounds or forms in such a way that they only appear in different contexts
- noun the grammatical relation of a word or phrase to a predicate
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Examples
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When they behave like adverbs – i.e. when they don’t have any noun phrase complementation – they’re said to be phrasal verbs.
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When they behave like adverbs – i.e. when they don’t have any noun phrase complementation – they’re said to be phrasal verbs.
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The problem (or one of them) comes with particles with no complementation but which nevertheless have prepositional meaning:
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I think you are going to say that the difference is that in ‘He looked up the word’, there is no noun phrase complementation.
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Again, is ‘her father’ the complementation of a prepositonal phrase beginning with ‘after’, or is it the object of a compound verb ‘take after’?
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I think you are going to say that the difference is that in ‘He looked up the word’, there is no noun phrase complementation.
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The problem or one of them comes with particles with no complementation but which nevertheless have prepositional meaning:
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Galan 2008 discusses this issue and advises caution, because it could be that other ATP hydrolyzing proteins from the cell coupled to the secretion apparatus and cause a partial complementation of protein.
Flagellum evolution -- how's your German? - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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Again, is ‘her father’ the complementation of a prepositonal phrase beginning with ‘after’, or is it the object of a compound verb ‘take after’?
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The Tracys are strong believers in gender complementation.
Ken Schenck on The Chicago Declaration on Biblical Inerrancy James F. McGrath 2009
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