Kroeger 1993 http://www.gial.edu/images/pdf/Kroeger-reply-Foley-LFG98.pdf states that
*Bumili ng palay ka ba?
??Hinagkan ng Nanay ako.
are ungrammatical, unlike similar sentences for non-verbal predicates, and that "this difference .. provides a clear distributional test for distinguishing between verbs and all other lexical categories".
To test this claim, I submitted these sentences to a native speaker:
anak ni Susan siya
ipinanganak ni Susan siya
Both were declared acceptable, though:
anak siya ni Susan
ipinanganak siya ni Susan
was preferred in each case.
Similarly, there seems to be only one grammatical position for "ba" in both:
anak ba siya ni Susan?
ipinanganak ba siya ni Susan?
Kroeger's claim therefore appears false to me. In this respect, at least, verb-like predicatives seem to behave syntactically in the same way as non-verb-like predicatives. Does anyone disagree, or have examples to support Kroeger's claim?
*Bumili ng palay ka ba?
??Hinagkan ng Nanay ako.
are ungrammatical, unlike similar sentences for non-verbal predicates, and that "this difference .. provides a clear distributional test for distinguishing between verbs and all other lexical categories".
To test this claim, I submitted these sentences to a native speaker:
anak ni Susan siya
ipinanganak ni Susan siya
Both were declared acceptable, though:
anak siya ni Susan
ipinanganak siya ni Susan
was preferred in each case.
Similarly, there seems to be only one grammatical position for "ba" in both:
anak ba siya ni Susan?
ipinanganak ba siya ni Susan?
Kroeger's claim therefore appears false to me. In this respect, at least, verb-like predicatives seem to behave syntactically in the same way as non-verb-like predicatives. Does anyone disagree, or have examples to support Kroeger's claim?