On lexical preferences in the alternation between the skoon bysin "bare complement clause" and the dat-bysin "that-complement clause": A distinctive collexeme analysis [PDF]
, 2016 It is well-known that the alternation in current Afrikaans between N the complement clause with dependent word order and an overt complementiser dat ("that"), and the so-called skoon bysin "bare complement clause" without an overt complementiser and with
T. Colleman +2 more
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Coreference relations in complex sentence with a complement clause [PDF]
Južnoslovenski Filolog, 2015 The main purpose of this paper is to analyze different co reference relations which can be established in a complex sentence between one of the arguments of the matrix clause and the understood/implicit subject of the complement clause ...
Moskovljević-Popović Jasmina D.
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Missing Complement Clause Subjects in Malagasy [PDF]
, 2007 This paper presents and analyzes a biclausal construction in the Austronesian language Malagasy in which the subject of a complement clause is not expressed but is interpreted as coreferential with a higher noun phrase: Manantena Rabei [mba/fa hividy ...
Eric Potsdam, Maria Polinsky
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Extended Classification of Complement Clause Possibilities for Thinking Verbs [PDF]
, 2022 This paper investigates further elaboration of syntactic properties of Thinking verb. All data required for this study are taken in Corpus of Contemporary American English.
Machmoed, Hamzah A. +5 more
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Pseudo-Complex Clauses in Persian and Their Constructing Strategies [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسی, 2021 Morphologically, syntactically and semantically, adverbs can be defined and classified in different ways, adverbs modify propositions and semantically convey various concepts.
Fateme Yegane, Farhad Sasani
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Complement Clause Types in Soqotri
Macrolinguistics, 2018 Within the perspective of Dixon’s Basic Linguistic Theory and Functional Typology, this article describes the complement clause in Soqotri, one of the least studied Semitic languages.
K. Mukhashin, Munir Shuib
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Negation as a predictor of clausal complement choice in World Englishes
English Language and Linguistics, 2021 Research on complementizer selection has shown that the presence of a negative particle in a subordinate complement clause influences complement choice, leading to a relatively higher proportion of finite complementation patterns by increasing the ...
Raquel P. Romasanta
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Word Order, Focus, and Clause Linking in Greek Tragic Poetry [PDF]
, 2009 The thesis comprises an investigation of three aspects of sentence structure in Classical Greek (henceforth CG) dramatic poetry: order of the main sentence elements (subject, verb, and object) within the clause, the emphatic position at the start of the ...
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COMPLEMENT CLAUSES IN KYRGYZ WITH THE SUFFIX -GAn AND THEIR COUNTERPARTS IN MODERN TURKISH
Uluslararası Türk Lehçe Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2018 The topic of this article is complement clauses in Kyrgyz with the suffix -GAn and their counterparts in modern Turkish. Complement clauses which are formed with the suffix -GAn link to the main clause as a subordinate clause and function as arguments ...
Cuma Bolat
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Graded Finiteness of Persian Complement Clauses Based on Landau's Minimalist view and Givon's Functionalist Approach [PDF]
زبان پژوهیIntroductionThe finiteness of complement clauses in Persian has been a controversial topic among linguists. Some linguists have examined finiteness under the classification of finite and nonfinite (or infinitive) clauses.
Foroozandeh Zardashti +2 more
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