Natural selection and the syntax of clausal complementation
This dissertation examines the syntax and semantics of clausal complements. It identifies semantic underpinnings for some syntactic properties of the arguments of propositional attitude verbs. The way clausal arguments compose with their embedding predicates is not uniform and semantic differences e...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2009
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3379996 |