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Complement clauses

Published in Cambridge University Press eBooks • Aug 7, 2003
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Authors:
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Abstract

A complement clause is a clause that can fill a core argument slot in place of an NP (see Dixon 1995 and Noonan 1985, for a typological overview). In Tariana, the choice of a clause type and other techniques – termed complementation strategies – for marking a clausal argument depend on the verb clas...

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