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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 ...
Rebecca Tollan, Bilge Palaz
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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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Escape From Noun Complement Clauses in Avatime
LanguagesThis paper discusses the status of island phenomena in Avatime, an endangered Kwa language of Ghana. We focus on clausal adjuncts, specifically noun complement clauses (NCCs). We show that while standard adjuncts are strong islands in Avatime, NCCs allow
Travis Major
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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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Türkiyat Mecmuası, 2021 This article investigates complement clauses, i.e., clauses entering an argument slot of a complement taking predicate, in Ötämiš Ḥāǰǰī’s Čingiz-nāmä, a 16th century Middle Turkic text from Khiva which demonstrates Qipchaq linguistic features.
Julian Rentzsch
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Stance complement clauses controlled by verbs in academic research papers
Topics in Linguistics, 2021 This paper explores stance complement clauses in the genre of academic discourse, analysing stance complement clauses controlled by verbs in economics research articles written in English by non-native writers. Following Biber’s taxonomy (2006) of common
Kozáčiková Zuzana
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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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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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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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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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