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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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Complementizer selection and the properties of complement clauses in German [PDF]

, 2004
Complement clauses in German can have a lexical complementizer when they are finite, but they must not have one when they are non-finite. I will argue that this distribution follows from the referential properties of the sentential complement.
Wöllstein, Angelika, Angelika Wöllstein   +1 more
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Verbless Relative Clauses in Gǝʿǝz and their Equivalents in Amharic and Tigrinya

Aethiopica, 2012
The most frequent and most typical relative clauses in Gǝʿǝz have a verbal predicate, but also nominal, or in other terms verbless, sentences may be relativized.
Olga Kapeliuk
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On the movement analysis of null subjects in Brazilian Portuguese: Experimental results from extraction of embedded subjects

Isogloss, 2019
There is an on-going debate on the empirical adequacy of the movement approach to definite null subjects in Brazilian Portuguese, BP (cf. Ferreira 2000, Rodrigues 2004, and Nunes 2009).
Claudia Coelho, Jairo Nunes, Leticia Santos   +2 more
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Genitivizazion in northern Basque complement clauses

Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 1972
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Jeffrey Heath
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The typology of actual clauses in Eastern Bantu

Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2023
This article reports on the existence of actual clause morphology and interpretation in selected Bantu languages. Essentially, we treat the actual clause as an embedded assertion whereby the utterer is committed not only to the truth of the proposition ...
Justine Mukhwana Sikuku, Joseph Wanyonyi Mulalu, Ken Safir   +2 more
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The Complex Sentences in Kurmanji

گۆڤارا زانستێن مرۆڤایەتی یا زانكۆیا زاخۆ, 2019
This study deals with the analysis and classification of complex sentences in terms of both syntactical and semantical features. There are many kinds of the complex sentences and they frequently consist of a main clause and a subordinate clause or a ...
Mikail Bülbül
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Complement clauses in Caucasian Urum

, 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, Johanna Lorenz
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As-clauses in Catalan and other Romance languages

Isogloss
This article investigates as-clauses in Catalan and other Romance languages. It observes that as-clauses can display an overt or canonical realization of the verbal complement or a gap. It argues that, when as-clauses display an overt verbal complement,
Jordi Fortuny
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Persian verbs and complement clauses

, 2023
In this paper, I evaluate the existing claims regarding complement clause structures in Persian, considering a broader class of predicates than what has been previously studied in the literature.  Therefore, I selected some Persian verbs which are ...
Faraji, Marzieh
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