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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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Note: This talk has not gone through a process of peer review, and findings should therefore be treated as preliminary and subject to change. Acknowledgement and citation: Kröker, Annette. 2023. Complement Clauses in Ihanzu. Talk given at the Ihanzu Symposium 2023, Bielefeld University, Germany. 20/10/2023.
Kröker, Annette
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The expressibility of modality in representational complement clauses in Brazilian Portuguese [PDF]
<p>This paper deals with the (im)possibility of expressing a variety of modal categories within the context of the layering approach to complementation in Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG).Our hypothesis is that modal expressions in complement ...
Valéria Vendrame +6 more
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This paper examines the use of the verb debere in imperative complement clauses found in Late Latin texts from the 4th to the 8th centuries, with the aim to offer an account of violation of the restrictions that apply in the instances that are not classical.
Mikulová, Jana
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The acquisition of German relative clauses: A case study [PDF]
This paper investigates the development of relative clauses in the speech of one German-speaking child aged 2;0 to 5;0. The earliest relative clauses we found in the data occur in topicalization constructions that are only a little different from simple ...
Diessel, Holger +2 more
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Complement and purpose clauses in K’iche’ [PDF]
textThis dissertation describes the morphological and syntactic properties of complement and purpose clauses in K’iche’. K’iche’ is a Mayan language spoken in Guatemala. Complement clauses are clausal elements that correspond to an argument of the matrix
Can Pixabaj, Telma Angelina
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Graded Finiteness of Persian Complement Clauses Based on Landau's Minimalist view and Givon's Functionalist Approach [PDF]
IntroductionThe finiteness of complement clauses in Persian has been a controversial topic among linguists. Some linguists have examined finiteness under the classification of finite and nonfinite (or infinitive) clauses.
Foroozandeh Zardashti +2 more
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Finiteness in South Slavic Complement Clauses
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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Pseudo-Complex Clauses in Persian and Their Constructing Strategies [PDF]
Morphologically, syntactically and semantically, adverbs can be defined and classified in different ways, adverbs modify propositions and semantically convey various concepts.
Fateme Yegane, Farhad Sasani
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L2 Acquisition of Complement Clauses by Persian Learners of English [PDF]
This research concentrates on the acquisition of complement clauses within Universal Grammar framework which theoretically plays the strongest linguistic role in second language acquisition research in recent years.
Mahdavi Zafarghandi, Amir +2 more
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