Michael,
Personally I like to see this adverbial particle as aspectual in nature. Normally we see aspect as modifying tense, but here it tells us about the nature of some event. Compare their use in forming phrasal verbs.
The gig is up.
The volume is down.
The couple is together again.
Can you put up with them?
They put the rebellion down.
We put together the puzzle.
Bruce
How would members parse "over" in "The party is over"? As an adverbial modifier in a NP+be+ADV/Time-Place sentence pattern, or as an adjectival subject complement in a NP+be+ADJ pattern? Thanks.
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