Can the verb 'to be' take an object?

[mxreader]

God mórgon! You are up early....

What you call a C locative Quirk calls an obligatory adverbial (obligatory predicate adjunct).

This makes sense.

What you call a C locative is denoted by 'A' in valency patterns in his "Blue Bible".

So, 'A'= obligatory adjunct and A=Adjunct

CGEL differentiates between complements and obligatory adverbials in CopV complementation; however, it states that some obligatory adverbs can function as complements (The game is over (= complete). = SVC). It makes no mention of C_locatives, though. Terminology.

This doesn't make sense, I have to keep his terminology at arms length.

Tack

[Kondorosi]

This doesn't make sense

To you. Would you explain what is not acceptable to you here?

I have to keep his terminology at arms length.

Tack

Var Sa God. You pays your money and you takes your choice.

So, 'A'= obligatory adjunct and A=Adjunct

Is this what an educated native would infer from my posts? My communication skills are not consummate yet, apparently.

[Kondorosi]

CGEL differentiates between complements and obligatory adverbials in CopV complementation; however, it states that some obligatory adverbs can function as complements:

By obligatory adverbs I did not mean obligatory adverbials. By them I meant adverbials that are not obligatory adverbials but still obligatorily present. Obligatory adverbials are those which are obligatorily present plus behave adverbially from a semantic point of view.
A is realized by an obligatory pred. adjunct, an obligatory adverbial.
C is realized by a noun, an adjective, or an adverb that is obligatorily present and behaves like an adjective in all? respects.

Obligatory adverbials assign an attribute of location (literal or metaphorical?) to the subject, but not all adverbials that are obligatorily present behave so. Consequently, not all adverbials that are obligatorily present are called obligatory adverbials.
Obligatory adverbial ≠ adverb that is obligatorily present

Obligatory adverbial is a subset of adverbs that are obligatorily present: All obligatory adverbials are obligatorily present, but not all obligatorily present adverbials are obligatory adverbials.

Now you see my point I trust.


Accoring to CGEL:
I am behind (scedule) in my rent. = SVC
I feel under the weather. = SV(A?C?)

This isn't clear-cut (to me), indeed. I think grammar books serve the purpose of giving a general direction which you can abandon if your own judgment that grammars have developed so requires.

According to me:
I am behind (scedule) in my rent. = SVC
I feel under the weather. = SVC

[mxreader]

Now you see my point I trust.

Now... where is my barge pole?

According to me:
I am behind (scedule) in my rent. = SVC
I feel under the weather. = SVC

Agreed, but now try these:

We flew to Stockholm.
He works in Lund.

[Kondorosi]

Now... where is my barge pole?

Do you want to nudge my argument with that?

Agreed, but now try these:

We flew to Stockholm.
He works in Lund.

SV*2

[mxreader]

SV*2

Confounding notation, I presume....
SVC
SVC

but how about
SVC_loc
SVA

For teaching purposes, I think I should leave out the idea of Adjuncts until later/never (I am still not convinced that they are useful distinctions), and just call them both complements.

[Kondorosi]

Confounding notation, I presume....
SVC
SVC

but how about
SVC_loc
SVA

For teaching purposes, I think I should leave out the idea of Adjuncts until later/never (I am still not convinced that they are useful distinctions), and just call them both complements.

Both sentences are SV and I am going to show you why.

We flew to Stockholm.
We flew to Stockholm.
He works in Lund.
He works in Lund.

A simple sentence consists of a single independent clause, which may be one of seven types. The types differ according to whether one or more elements are obligatorily present in addition to S and V.

[mxreader]

I don't understand your explanation, are you saying that

"We flew to Stockholm" is the same as "We flew"? both SV?

If "We flew" is SV, then what of "to Stockholm"?

[Kondorosi]

If "We flew" is SV, then what of "to Stockholm"?

It is an optional adverb, an optional predicate adjunct of direction.

[Kondorosi]

"We flew to Stockholm" is the same as "We flew"? both SV?

Same in terms of what obligatory elements are present.

SVA means V = CopV. 'flew' is not a CopV; it is an I(ntransitive verb). I's can only occur in SV.