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Subject Gaps Revisited: Complement Clauses and Complementizer-Trace Effects

Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States (4) a. My brother wanted to know [who Ruth will bring us home to __ at Christmas]. b. My brother ...
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DEVELOPMENT OF WORD ORDER IN GERMAN COMPLEMENT-CLAUSE CONSTRUCTIONS: EFFECTS OF INPUT FREQUENCIES, LEXICAL ITEMS, AND DISCOURSE FUNCTION

We investigate the development of word order in German children's spontaneous production of complement clauses. From soon after their second birthday, young German children use both verb-final ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Biber, D. (1999). Complement Clause Constructions in Spoken and Written English. In R. Hickey (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Language Variation and Change (pp. 103-122 ...

ABSTRACT: Despite the widespread application of Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) in various text analyses, there exists a dearth of reviews concerning critical syntactic issues within SFG. These ...
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The Accusative and Infinitive in Latin: A Refractory Complement Clause

Journal of Linguistics has as its goal to publish articles that make a clear contribution to current debate in all branches of theoretical linguistics. The journal also provides an excellent survey of ...
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Beyond the Two-Clause Sentence: Acquisition of Clause Chaining in Six Languages

1 MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University, Sydney, NSW, Australia 2 Department of Linguistics and Asian/Middle Eastern Languages, San Diego State University, ...