Complementation: A Cross-Linguistic TypologyR. M. W. Dixon, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald This book explores the variety of types of complementation found across the languages of the world and their grammatical properties and meanings. It shows how languages differ in the grammatical properties of complement clauses and in the types of verbs which take them, and explores the complement strategies deployed by languages which lack a complement clause construction. The book includes detailed studies of particular languages, including Akkadian, Israeli, Jarawara, and Pennsylvania German. These are framed by R. M. W. Dixon's introduction, which sets out the range of issues, and his conclusion, which draws together the evidence and the arguments. |
Contents
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2 Complement Clause Types in Pennsylvania German | 49 |
3 Complement Clause Types in Israeli | 72 |
4 Complement Clause Type and Complementation Strategy in Jarawara | 93 |
5 Complement Clause Types and Complementation Strategy in White Hmong | 115 |
6 Complement Clause Types and Complementation Strategy in Dolakha Newar | 137 |
7 Complement Clause Types and Complementation Strategies in Akkadian | 159 |
8 Complement Clause Types and Complementation Strategies in Tariana | 178 |
9 Complement Clause Type and Complementation Strategies in Goemai | 204 |
10 Complement Clause Type and Complementation Strategies in Matses | 224 |
11 Complement Clause Type and Complementation Strategy in Kambera | 245 |
12 Complementation Strategies in Dyirbal | 263 |
Author index | 281 |
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activity adjectives adverbialized clauses Aikhenvald Akkadian apposition Chapter clausal clauses and complementation clitic comple complement clause construction complement clause type complement-taking verbs complementation strategy controlled clause coordinated copula core arguments coreference coreferential direct speech Dolakha Newar Dyirbal elicited English evidentiality example express Fact complement clause function Genetti Goemai goepe grammar Hmong infinitive complement inflection interrogative intransitive Israeli Jarawara John Kambera khã La Trobe University language Linguistic Typology main clause main verb marked marker Matses meaning ment clause modal morphemes morphology negation nominal clauses nominal complement noun phrase occur Oxford PNAME prefix preposition Primary-B verbs pronominal pronoun purposive clause quotative R. M. W. Dixon refer relative clause Secondary concepts Secondary verbs Secondary-A Secondary-B verbs sentence serial verb construction slot speakers structure subordinate clause suffix syntactic Table take a complement Tariana tense tias transitive verb types of complement University Press verb types verbal