Unni Cathrine Eiken February 2005

antecedent for (4-15a). In the case of (4-15b) the EPAS list is unfortunately not equally helpful.
Other occurrences of observere (observe) are:
(4- 17)
observere,?,23-åring
observere,?,bile
observere,?,person
observe,?,23-year-old
observe,?,car
observe,?,person
Neither the EPAS in (4-17), nor the concept groups from section 4.2.2, give us any clues as to
whether lensmann or gjerningsmann is a more likely second argument in connection with the
predicate observere. This can be explained by two circumstances; firstly, the example sentences
in (4-15) are constructed and therefore do not reflect examples from the data set, secondly, the
small size of the data material obviously limits the extent to which one can expect that all valid
patterns of the domain are in fact found in the data set.
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