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Subject Gaps Revisited: Complement Clauses and Complementizer-Trace Effects [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 This study investigates how filler-gap dependencies associated with subject position are formed in online sentence comprehension. Since Crain and Fodor (1985), “filled-gap” studies have provided evidence that the parser actively seeks to associate a wh ...
Bilge Palaz, Rebecca Tollan
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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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The structure of complement clauses in Lunda
Studies in African Linguistics, 2006 This paper provides a functional and descriptive study of complement clauses in Lunda, a language spoken in Zambia. While the structure of infinitival complement clauses is analogous to that found in many languages, other types of complement clauses ...
Boniface Kawasha
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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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Coordinate and subordinate clauses in the Slavic languages [PDF]
Južnoslovenski Filolog, 2008 This article provides a survey of major findings on complex sentences in the Slavic languages. It treats coordinate and subordinate clauses, together with their conjunction. As for the subordinate clauses, it deals with complement clauses.
Kordić Snježana
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Syntactic labeling of complement small clauses in Persian [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسی, 2023 This study presents a minimalist analysis of complement small clauses in Persian by reviewing different approaches to their categorial status. By the emergence of Chomsky’s Government and Binding Theory (GB) (Chomsky, 1981), small clauses have garnered ...
Maryam KhamseAshari +2 more
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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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Finiteness in South Slavic Complement Clauses
Linguistica, 2020 This paper shows that the distribution of (non‑)finiteness in the South Slavic languages reflects an implicational scale along an independently attested semantic complementation hierarchy (e.g., Givón 1980). We suggest that in the South Slavic languages,
Susanne Wurmbrand +4 more
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Cadernos de Estudos Lingüísticos, 2011 This paper works with one central idea that Small Clauses (as put forward basically by Stowell 1981 and 1983 and Chomsky 1981 and 1986, our Hypothesis A) do not exist, if they are understood as Complement Small Clauses.
Ronald Taveira da Cruz
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On the (non)-expletive uses of the preverbal negative ne/en in the history of (Low) German and Dutch
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2020 This article presents novel data from Middle High German, Middle Low German and Middle Dutch showing that two phenomena which often have been treated as one, namely the single former negative marker ne/en appearing in adverbial and complement clauses ...
Elisabeth Witzenhausen
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