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
accepts According action activity actually agent allow alternatives analysis appears argue aspect atemporal Chapter choice coded cognitive compatible complement clause complement content complement event complement subject conceptual conceptualiser concerns considered construal construction construed contrast coreferential denotes describes determined direct distance distinction domain elaborated emotion entity evidence evokes examples exist expressed fact factors for-to force function gerund grammatical grounding happen immediate impersonal implies important infinitive instance intention interpretation involves language leave less lexical linguistic main clause subject main verb meaning nature negative nominal noun object object position occur participant particular pattern perception performing person pertains phrase position possible potential predicates prepositional present raised realisation reality reason refers relation relationship represents requires respect result role scene semantic sense sentence shown similar situation speaker specific structure syntactic takes to-infinitive trajector volition whereas whole
References to this book
Non-finite Complementation: A Usage-based Study of Infinitive and -ing ... Thomas Egan Limited preview - 2008 |