The paraphrasing system of MTT makes use of lexical and syntactic rules, of which some of the latter are optional when paraphrasing support verb constructions. For a formal description of the conditions, whether or not an optional syntactic rule has to be applied for a certain paraphrase, it is necessary to have information available about the distribution of actants between the predicative noun and the support verb. To provide this information in a system-atic way, we propose a modified notation of support verbs in particular government patterns or in terms of Operij, instead of the traditional notation of Operi. The discussion is based on German material.
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