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Complement Clauses

2004
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
exaly   +3 more sources

Relative Clauses and Complement Clauses

Tommi Tsz-Cheung Leung   +2 more
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Complement clauses in Caucasian Urum

open access: yesSTUF - Language Typology and Universals, 2019
Lorenz J. Complement clauses in Caucasian Urum. STUF-LANGUAGE TYPOLOGY AND UNIVERSALS. 2019;72(2):255-273.This study examines the different patterns used to code complement clauses in Caucasian Urum, an endangered variety of Anatolian Turkish spoken in ...
Lorenz, Johanna
exaly   +2 more sources

That-clauses and other complements

Lingua, 1991
Abstract 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

1995
Abstract 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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