Atemporal Complement Clauses in English: A Cognitive Grammar Analysis |
Contents
Conceptual characterisation of complement clauses | 71 |
Syntactic characterisation of complement clauses | 82 |
The semantic structure of the zero complementiser | 94 |
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Common terms and phrases
action activity adverbs agent analysis atemporal complement clause bare infinitive causation causee characterised coded cognitive compatible complement clause constructions complement content complement event complement scene complement subject complement types complement verb conceptual content conceptual distance conceptualiser conceptualiser's considered construal construed contrast coreferential denotes describes difference in meaning domain emotion entity evokes examples extraposed extraposition facets for-to complement clause function gerund gerundial complement clauses grammatical immediate reality impersonal complement constructions implies infinitive intervening nominal involves landmark Langacker lexical lexical semantics linguistic main and complement main clause subject main predicate main verb modality morpheme non-elaborated non-extraposed non-raised noun phrase object position occur participant passive pattern pertains polysemous potential reality pragmatic prepositional present participle processual complement clause projected reality pronoun raised construction realisation relation relationship represents sense sentence situation speaker specific subdomain syntactic takes that-clause to-infinitive complement trajector types of complement vantage point variant verbs expressing volition whereas
References to this book
Non-finite Complementation: A Usage-based Study of Infinitive and -ing ... Thomas Egan Limited preview - 2008 |