I am confused by the following paragraph from Craig.


I thought of a sentence pair I sometimes use for "to" as preposition or complementizer. "I went out to weed and garden." "I went out to the weeds and gardens." Even without the second pair, I think we need to intuit that "weed" and "garden" are not just formal verbs (since the slot could be a noun slot), but actions of sorts. I think we need to draw on the semantic view of verbs. 

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Are you claiming that "to weed and garden" and "to the weeds and garden" are so similar that we cannot distinguish that in the first weed and garden are verbs and in the second weeds and gardens are nouns?

Is this correct?

Bob Yates, University of Central Missouri

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