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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"complementizers"”.
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Subjects and complementizers
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1992.
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Origin and Development of the Indo-Aryan Quotatives and Complementizers: An Areal Approach
… to investigate the degree to which Indo-Aryan complementizers and quotatives can be attributed to outside influences (Persian and Dravidian, respectively) or internal developments. I determine that Persian influence is responsible for the spread of complementizers throughout much of Indo-Aryan. …
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Input och output : ordföljd i svenska barns huvudsatser och bisatser
… focusing on the syntax of verb placement and complementizers is presented. Chapters 1 to 4 offer a background to the thesis. In chapter 1 the aims and the material are presented. Chapter 2 provides a generative analysis of verb placement and complementizers, constituting the descriptive …
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The structure of attitude reports : representing context in grammar
… this construction, I propose that the certain complementizers have a secondary use as a marker of reported speech. I unify this use of complementizers with their more common clausal subordination use by adopting the proposal in Kratzer (2006), which argues that the modal quantification …
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Romance morphosyntactic microvariation in complementizer and auxiliary systems
… previous study has compared the distribution of complementizers and auxiliaries in Italo-Romance to investigate similarities and correspondences between them. This dissertation takes the original step of demonstrating that the distribution of particular auxiliary systems correlates with the …
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On reduced relatives with genitive subjects
… others, both prohibit relative pronouns and complementizers. Both employ participles, i.e., verbs that lack tense but exhibit nominal properties. Both prohibit nominative subjects. Therefore, it will be argued that relative clauses with genitive subjects are reduced relatives. There exists, …
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(Negative) concord and head directionality in Western Armenian
… possible structures. These are found in the complementizers and the adpositions of the language. The complementizer phrases (CPs) which contain more than one morpheme bearing the same feature, are comprised of one head final and one head initial morpheme. Either can be uttered without the …
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Eolian morphosyntax: A comparative Romance perspective
… constituents, Eolian’s two finite complementizers (ca/che ‘that’), taken together, constitute a conservative dual complementizer system that is distinct from heretofore documented modern Romance varieties. A greater use of non-finite complementation, with respect to both USIDs and …
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Talking About How: Variation in the Use of HOW and Its Definition
This study identified the patterns that represent the unconventional ways that students used <em>how</em> in academic essays, determined the frequency of each pattern, and for the sake of comparison, searched for those patterns in the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), in both the …