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On the Effects of Commas and Line Breaks in Relative Clause Attachment. [PDF]

open access: yesQ J Exp Psychol (Hove)
Aguilar M   +3 more
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The Acquisition of Finite Complement Clauses in English: A Corpus-Based Analysis

open access: yesCognitive Linguistics, 2001
This article examines the development of finite complement clauses in the speech of seven English-speaking children aged 1;2 to 5;2. It shows that in most of children's complex utterances that seem to include a finite complement clause, the main clause ...
Michael Tomasello, Holger Diessel
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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
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Infinitival complement clauses

2021
Abstract 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 ...
Aida Cardoso   +2 more
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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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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 IN MEGRELIAN

Studia Linguistica, 1991
Complement 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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