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Cognitive Linguistics, 2023 Research focusing on Anglo-European languages indicates that children’s acquisition of the subordinate structure of complement-clause constructions and the semantics of mental verbs facilitates their understanding of false belief, and that the two ...
Angel Chan, Silke Brandt
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Noun complement clauses as referential modifiers
Glossa, 2017 A number of recent analyses propose that so-called noun complement clauses should be analyzed as a type of relative clause. In this paper, I present a number of complications for any analysis that equates noun complement clauses to relative clauses, and ...
Carlos de Cuba
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Comparison of Complement Clauses in Persian and Russian Languages with Focus on the Words that Need Complement [PDF]
̒Ilm-i Zabān, 2023 In Persian, the complement subordinate clause is known as one of the direct dependents of the verb, but in Russian, it can also be dependent on the verb, noun, short adjective, or predicative adverbs.
mahnush eskandari, Ali Saeidi
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Another Division on Persian Comprehensive Preposition [PDF]
مطالعات زبانی و بلاغی, 2018 Having a look at preposition in Persian grammar sources, we find out that these five comprehensive prepositions "to, with, on, from, in" have multiple grammatical behavior.
ehsan esmaili
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The typology of actual clauses in Eastern Bantu
Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2023 This article reports on the existence of actual clause morphology and interpretation in selected Bantu languages. Essentially, we treat the actual clause as an embedded assertion whereby the utterer is committed not only to the truth of the proposition ...
Justine Mukhwana Sikuku +2 more
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Cognitive Sciences, 2023 A key factor that affects whether and at what age children can demonstrate an understanding of false belief and complement-clause constructions is the type of task used (whether it is implicit/indirect or explicit/direct).
S. Brandt +2 more
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Remarks on prepositional object clauses in Germanic
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2020 This paper analyses the variation we find in the realization of finite clausal complements in the position of prepositional objects in a set of Germanic languages.
Lutz Gunkel, Jutta Hartmann
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Developmental Psychology, 2021 To examine whether children's acquisition of perspective-marking language supports development in their ability to reason about mental states, we conducted a longitudinal study testing whether proficiency with complement clauses around age 3 explained ...
Ditte Boeg Thomsen +3 more
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