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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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Participle clauses between adverbial and complement [PDF]
, 2015 The present paper offers a synchronic and diachronic analysis of integrated participle clauses or IPCs in English, as found in constructions such as the mayor is busy washing his car or many students had trouble finding the correct answer.
De Smet, Hendrik
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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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Variation in tense and aspect, and the temporal interpretation of complement clauses [PDF]
, 2019 In this paper, we investigate the temporal interpretation of propositional attitude complement clauses in four typologically unrelated languages: Washo (language isolate), Medumba (Niger-Congo), Hausa (Afro-Asiatic), and Samoan (Austronesian).
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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 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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Object complement clauses in Guarijío
, 2023 <p>I presented this poster at the <em>1er Feria de Posgrados UNISON </em>on March 17th, 2023 at the University of Sonora. The purpose of the poster is to show some aspects of my research on complement clauses in the Guarij ...
González Nieto, Eder Simeí
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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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That-Clauses in Noun Phrase Structure
Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 1995 The aim of this paper is to discuss aspects of the grammar of the (non-relative) that-clauses which follow head nouns. Specifically, two aspects will be discussed here.
Juan Carlos Acuña Fariña
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Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2017 This paper discusses the syntax of relative clauses in European Portuguese (EP) by focussing on the status of the relativizer que in restrictive and appositive relative clauses.
Elisabeth Aßmann, Esther Rinke
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