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The comp:obj relation is used for direct object complements, including direct complements of an adposition or a subordinating conjunction.

Direct object complements

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Usually, in order to determine whether an object is direct or not, it suffices to know if it forms a construction with a preposition. If it doesn’t, the object is direct. According to different languages, this criterion may be insufficient. In the following examples we can see direct objects of the Spanish verb ver. With animate objects this verb takes the preposition a, however the object is still considered direct and therefore the relation stays comp:obj.

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Adposition arguments

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Subordinating conjunction arguments

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Complement of an adverb of comparison

Constructions such as: plus… que (French), more… than (English), più… di (Italian), bardziej… niż (Polish), более… чем (Russian).

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Complement in consecutive constructions

Constructions such as: tellement… que (French), so… that (English), così… che (Italian), tak… że (Polish), настолько… что (Russian).

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Deep subjects of impersonal constructions

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Deep syntactic features

The relation comp:obj can have these features:

• @x
• @agent
• @lvc