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This new dictionary (henceforth 'VDE') sets out to provide a scholarly and comprehensive account of the complementation patterns found alongside 511 common English verbs, 274 common nouns and 544 common adjectives. It is obvious from... more

This new dictionary (henceforth 'VDE') sets out to provide a scholarly and comprehensive account of the complementation patterns found alongside 511 common English verbs, 274 common nouns and 544 common adjectives. It is obvious from these figures that the compilers have aimed for depth rather than breadth of coverage and have chosen to focus on high-frequency lexical items whose complex patterning calls for lengthy treatment or may create difficulties for advanced learners of English. Potential buyers will therefore have to weigh up considerations of price and usefulness. It is a moot point whether the desire of advanced learners for precise detail is so great as to induce them to buy a dictionary with such a small number of entries when the competition offers far broader, though admittedly less thorough coverage. As it stands, the dictionary seems destined to be used by scholars only. Since it is the compilers' stated aim to describe common words that exhibit complex and varied complementation patterns, it is somewhat surprising to find that some less frequent adjectives such as remarkable, memorable and notable have been recorded, while the more common synonym interesting, which has similar patterning, is missing. The treatment of the three recorded adjectives is also slightly unsystematic. Only memorable is cited as occurring with the preposition as (+ N), although this use is fairly well attested for all these adjectives and other synonymic items besides. No mention is made of the related obsolescent pattern whereby these adjectives are associated with the participle construction of characterization:

These volumes of the Syntax of Dutch discuss the internal make-up and distribution of noun phrases. Topics that will be covered include: complementation and modification of noun phrases; properties of determiners (article,... more

These volumes of the Syntax of Dutch discuss the internal make-up and distribution of noun phrases. Topics that will be covered include: complementation and modification of noun phrases; properties of determiners (article, demonstratives), numeral and quantifiers; the use of noun phrases as arguments, predicates and adverbial modifiers.

This volume of the Syntax of Dutch discusses the internal make-up as well as the distribution of adjective phrases. Topics that will be covered include: complementation and modification of adjective phrases; comparative and superlative... more

This article provides a detailed survey of complement clauses and complementation strategies in Japhug. It shows the bewildering diversity of constructions attested in these languages, which are largely unpredictable and need to be... more

This article provides a detailed survey of complement clauses and complementation strategies in Japhug. It shows the bewildering diversity of constructions attested in these languages, which are largely unpredictable and need to be specified for each complement-taking verb. Special focus is given to typologically unusual constructions, in particular Hybrid Indirect Speech.

The paper is focused on patterns of complementation in Russian. The Russian patterns of complementation has been subject of linguistic research, but is, nevertheless, a bit overlooked, as compared to NP arguments. In the article, two main... more

The paper is focused on patterns of complementation in Russian. The Russian patterns of complementation has been subject of linguistic research, but is, nevertheless, a bit overlooked, as compared to NP arguments. In the article, two main purposes are stated. First, we consider it important to describe peripheral complementation patterns which have not been previously described or have only been mentioned in previous studies. Second, we would like to show that peripheral patterns and types of variance provide us with additional information about semantics of embedded verb forms and strategies (e.g., infinitive clauses or finite clauses with complementizers) and behavior of particular verb classes. In particular, it turns out that some verbs, such as sledit' 'watch' or dobivat'sja '(try to) achieve' allow complementation with the marker čtoby, but are (almost) incompatible with infinitive even in co-reference contexts. There are also patterns which differ more significantly from standard ones: for instance, verbs like načat' 'begin' allow a strategy which I call 'syntactic doubling': the form which occurs in the main clause is repeated in the embedded one.

In order to evaluate complementation effects of hay-molasses- urea on average daily gain, lactation length and lactation yield with 31 native goats, a trial was carried out in San Jose de los Ranchos, Torres Municipality, Lara State,... more

In order to evaluate complementation effects of hay-molasses- urea on average daily gain, lactation length and lactation yield with 31 native goats, a trial was carried out in San Jose de los Ranchos, Torres Municipality, Lara State, Venezuela. Goats with average weight of 28.87 ± 2 kg, were submitted to a com- pletely random design to To: Control (grazing and

In the article, I address constructions like "It is interesting to me to be here" in Russian. Russian employs a special type of adjective/adverbial here, called 'predicatives' (e.g., "interesno" '(it is) interesting'). The key question... more

In the article, I address constructions like "It is interesting to me to be here" in Russian. Russian employs a special type of adjective/adverbial here, called 'predicatives' (e.g., "interesno" '(it is) interesting'). The key question concerns the status of sentential arguments, suc as "to be here" in these constructions: it is worth testing whether the sentential argument shows any properties of syntactic subject. I show that sentential arguments of different predicatives show different subjectivity effects: with mental predicatives like "interesno", they are "more subjects" than with weather predicatives like "xolodno" '(it is) cold'. Moreover, sentential arguments of predicatives show special properties with respect to the word order, showing that the structure of constructions like "it is interesting to see that" is different from "this book is interesting". In other words, some sentential subjects are really subjects, but only with a subset of subjective properties.

The paper is focused on the phenomenon of syntactic doubling in Russian - a strategy of complementation where the form of the embedded verb repeats the form of the matrix verb. Doubling is highly untypical as a complementation strategy:... more

The paper is focused on the phenomenon of syntactic doubling in Russian - a strategy of complementation where the form of the embedded verb repeats the form of the matrix verb. Doubling is highly untypical as a complementation strategy: in doubling structures, even imperative can be found in embedded clauses, which is very rare typologically.

1. Introduction * Our contribution is part of a series of more comprehensive studies that investigate the nature and diachronic development of subordinate clauses in the history of Greek (cf. Fykias & Katsikadeli 2013, Karantzola &... more

1. Introduction * Our contribution is part of a series of more comprehensive studies that investigate the nature and diachronic development of subordinate clauses in the history of Greek (cf. Fykias & Katsikadeli 2013, Karantzola & Sampanis 2016). This paper deals with the phenomenon of multiple complementation markers that introduce complement clauses. The commitment of taking into serious consideration and exploiting the methodology of contrastive linguistics constitutes an essential characteristic of our analysis. We explore the co-occurrence of multiple complement clause particles, which can either be currently observed in contemporary colloquial usage or –alternatively– have been attested during specific diachronic phases or in specific dialectal varieties of three different languages (Greek, Albanian and German). We develop a framework of contrastive analysis, which, on the one hand, aims at providing a detailed and accurate description of both similarities and differences among the grammatical systems of the languages under examination and, on the other hand, sets out to offer at least a sketch of an explanatory account. Our analysis will focus on the details of possible combinations of complementation markers. These specifics encompass such formal aspects as the linear word order of the elements involved, the matter of optional vs. obligatory status of these combinations in their respective contexts, the issue of selectional conditions in this concrete context (i.e. what counts as an eligible partner of the combination, such as the type of indirect questions that are combinable with the complementizer se in Albanian), and possible deviations from a more general pattern that has been established so far in the linguistic literature –especially in connection with Germanic languages (such as German and English) that have been studied more extensively. A further issue that is addressed concerns the question whether the subordinate/embedded clauses under investigation display main (root) sentence characteristics or not, along the lines of the distinctions that were first introduced by Emonds (e.g. 2004).

The paper investigates a light verb construction in Yiddish in which the light verb combines with a verbal stem to produce a special aspectual meaning, the exact nature of which depends on the event type denoted by the stem. Though the... more

The paper investigates a light verb construction in Yiddish in which the light verb combines with a verbal stem to produce a special aspectual meaning, the exact nature of which depends on the event type denoted by the stem. Though the specific interpretations associated with the stem construction vary, I show that they have in common the property of denoting an event which is minimized in time. I analyze the semantics of the stem construction in terms of an aspectual operator (located in an inflectional head) which modifies the properties of the event argument of the stem, yielding an appropriately truncated event in each case.

The article is focused on marking factive complement clauses in Russian (in particular, in constructions with emotional verbs) in unreal contexts. Contexts like these are especially problematic, since non-reality and factivity by nature... more

The article is focused on marking factive complement clauses in Russian (in particular,
in constructions with emotional verbs) in unreal contexts. Contexts like these are
especially problematic, since non-reality and factivity by nature constitute a logically
strange combination. Factivity is associated with real contexts, and the degree of reality
is equal for the matrix factive predicate and the complement event. However, as I will
show, the two values are combinable. Importantly, the two ways of marking differ
semantically, one of them being a default one, and the other one having de dicto special
interpretation in most cases. This de dicto reading is facilitated by a sort of ‘agreement’
taking place between several components of the utterance: the participant NPs tend to
have a non-specific reading, while the complement clause tends to be marked with
subjunctive and has a maximally possible degree of non-reality.

Comrie (1996) and Matsumoto (1997) argue that in languages such as Japanese and Korean, relative clauses (RCs) and clausal noun complements (NCs) have the same structure. RCs in these and similar prehead relative languages are claimed not... more

Comrie (1996) and Matsumoto (1997) argue that in languages such as Japanese and Korean, relative clauses (RCs) and clausal noun complements (NCs) have the same structure. RCs in these and similar prehead relative languages are claimed not to obey island constraints, and to allow a very wide range of relations between the clause and head noun. We demonstrate that prehead RCs and NCs in Japanese, Korean, Ainu, Tundra Nenets, Turkic, and Sakha are systematically distinguished by phenomena such as agreement and N' pronominalization. The apparent violability of islands in these languages is due to independent phenomena, such as the existence of major subject constructions.

The Highland East Cushitic language Kambaata employs five different purpose-encoding strategies. Purpose clauses can be headed by switch reference-sensitive purposive verb forms or by dative-marked verbal nouns. A third type of purpose... more

The Highland East Cushitic language Kambaata employs five different purpose-encoding strategies. Purpose clauses can be headed by switch reference-sensitive purposive verb forms or by dative-marked verbal nouns. A third type of purpose clause is modelled on a similative clause and contains a relative verb to which an enclitic ‘like’ is added. Two less common strategies are the converb and the quotative strategy. The present article gives a detailed account of the syntax of purpose clauses (and complex sentences) as well as the morphology of the verb forms used in purpose clauses. It also discusses which formal devices are shared between purpose and complement clauses and between purpose clauses and indirect commands (jussive clauses). Finally, the purpose-encoding strategies applied in Kambaata are compared to those in closely related Highland East Cushitic languages.