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The Functional Motivations of Complement That-Clauses
Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 1998 The aim of this paper is to reveal a few basic principles which constitute the essential logic of the English system of complementation. That-clauses will be the main focus of attention, although frequent reference will be made to the non-finite forms ...
Juan Carlos Acuña Fariña
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The Two Spanish Subjunctives: The Required and Default Subjunctives
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2022 Standard Spanish grammar states that desideratives (querer que), directives (aconsejar que), purpose clauses (para que), causatives (hacer que), emotive-factives (alegrarse de que), negated epistemics (no creer que), dubitatives (dudar que), and modals (
Tris Faulkner
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A Contrastive Study of Complements in Persian and German Languages
Naqd-i Zabān va Adabīyyāt-i Khārijī, 2016 The present paper is a contrastive analysis of complement clauses in Farsi and German. A complement clause is a type of subordinate clause.Depending on their degree of dependence on the verb, complement clauses in Farsi and German are of different types.
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Structural and semantic factors in the belief-intent alternation in Basque
GlossaClause-embedding predicates alternating between a complement expressing a belief and a complement expressing an intention seem to be quite widespread both inside and across languages.
Silvie Strauß
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Wh-complement Clauses and (non-)Local Selection
Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2023 This paper revisits c- and s-selection in the context of wh-clausal complements. The standard treatment of predicate-complement selection can be traced back to generative approaches of 70’s and says that the selection of a complement by a predicate is ...
Anna Roussou, Christos Vlachos
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Relative clauses in Western Muskogean languages
Glossa, 2017 Chickasaw and Choctaw, the two Western Muskogean languages, have several different relative clause constructions, each of which is internally headed: (1) relative clauses with final demonstratives; (2) relative clauses in which the verb is marked with ...
Lynn Gordon, Pamela Munro
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The diachrony of the Basque marker bait-: from a manner expression to subordinator
LinguisticsThis article analyzes the diachrony of the Basque marker bait-, which is a verbal prefix in subordinate clauses, but also has other functions: for example, it appears in independent clauses and indefinite pronouns.
Krajewska Dorota
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Syntactic Resemblance in the Derivation of Persian Relative and Adverbial Clauses [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسیThe syntactic parallelism between relative clauses and adverbial clauses in English has led researchers to hypothesize that both types of clauses may share a common derivation process.
Mona Valipour
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Adverbial clauses: Internally rich, externally null
Glossa, 2019 This paper suggests a novel syntactic treatment of adverbial clauses. The point of departure is the observation – in German and Slavic languages – that there exists an asymmetry in the complexity of subordinating elements in complement and adverbial ...
Andreas Blümel, Hagen Pitsch
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Borrelia valaisiana resist complement-mediated killing independently of the recruitment of immune regulators and inactivation of complement components [PDF]
, 2013 Spirochetes belonging to the Borrelia (B.) burgdorferi sensu lato complex differ in their resistance to complement-mediated killing, particularly in regard to human serum.
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