ErgSemantics_ClausalComplements

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Linguistic Characterization

Motivating Examples

We thought that they barked.
They forgot that they had voted.
She knew who hadn't arrived yet.
He relied on what they said.
How they voted surprised me.
That they voted early surprised me.
Them voting early surprised me.
Their voting early surprised me.
Their early voting surprised me.

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Non-WH finite propositional arguments, and WH clausal non-subject complements of selecting verbs, adjectives, and nouns (eg. doubted/doubtful/doubt whether S):

  [ARG* h1]
  h2:[ARG0 e1]

  { h1 =q h2 }

WH-clause subjects, WH-clause complements of prepositions, and nominal and verbal gerunds:

  nominalization[ARG0 x1, ARG1 h1]
  h1:[ARG0 e1]

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Reflections

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Expert External Commentary

Grammar Version

• ERG 1214

References

More Information

• ErgSemantics main page

• Inventory of semantic phenomena (to be) documented

• How to cite this work