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Journal of Child Language, 2016 This study investigates the coordination of matrix and subordinate clauses within finite complement-clause constructions. The data come from diary and audio recordings which include the utterances produced by an American English-speaking child, L ...
Bahar Köymen, E. Lieven, S. Brandt
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Remarks on gapless relative clauses and complement clauses in Mandarin Chinese
Asian Languages and Linguistics, 2022This paper makes remarks on the syntactic status of Gapless Relative Clauses (GRCs) in Mandarin Chinese and shows that the arguments for their complement status are not supported by the facts in Mandarin Chinese, as almost all the arguments for the ...
H. Pan
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Abstract Some verbs, as predicate head, require just NPs as core arguments, whereas others may accept an NP or a complement clause in certain roles. For instance, in English one can say IA tried [ the pudding]O, with an NP in O slot, or IA tried [ to eat the pudding]O, with a complement clause in O slot.
R M W Dixon, Alan R Vogel
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Abstract Some verbs, as predicate head, require just NPs as core arguments, whereas others may accept an NP or a complement clause in certain roles. For instance, in English one can say IA tried [ the pudding]O, with an NP in O slot, or IA tried [ to eat the pudding]O, with a complement clause in O slot.
R M W Dixon, Alan R Vogel
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In all its known periods of development, Turkic has employed chain clauses. They are complex sentences that contain a chain of subordinate clauses which with respect to their thematic-narrative status are equal to the base predication.
Birsel Karakoc
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That-clauses and other complements
Lingua, 1991Abstract The fundamental assumption of the present paper is that complementizers have specific communicative function. We propose a tripartite distinction of complementizers in English. Complementizer that marks the following clause as belonging to the semantic domain de dicto in which reference is made to the elements of speech rather than to the ...
Zygmunt Frajzyngier, Robert Jasperson
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Complement Clauses and Complementation Strategies
1995Abstract A complement clause is a type of clause which fills an argument slot in the structure of another clause. Most languages have a restricted set of complement-taking verbs (CTVs) which may have either an NP—as in (i) and (3) from English—or a complement clause—as in (2) and (4)—corresponding to a core argument slot.
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Infinitival complement clauses
2021Abstract Assuming the Feature Reassembly Hypothesis (FRH) ( Lardiere 2008 , 2009 ), we argue that the acquisition of Exceptional Case Marking (ECM), Inflected Infinitive Structures (IIS) and Prepositional Infinitival Structures (PIC ...
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COMPLEMENT CLAUSES IN MEGRELIAN
Studia Linguistica, 1991Complement clause types include sentence‐like subordinate clauses with indicative and subjunctive verbs as well as verbal noun clauses. Megrelian lacks infinitives. The division between indicative and subjunctive complement clauses is shown to correlate with the distinction between Truth and Action modality complements.
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