“Object complements” and conversation towards a realistic account
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- 21 June 2002
- journal article
- review article
- Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company in Studies in Language. International Journal Sponsored By the Foundation “foundations of Language”
- Vol. 26 (1), 125-163
- https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.26.1.05tho
Abstract
Based on a corpus of conversational English, I argue that the standard view of complements as subordinate clauses in a grammatical relation with a complement-taking predicate is not supported by the data. Rather, what has been described under the heading of complementation can be understood in terms of epistemic/evidential/evaluative formulaic fragments expressing speaker stance toward the content of a clause. This analysis, in which CTPs and their subjects are stored and retrieved as formulaic stance markers accounts for the grammatical, pragmatic, prosodic, and phonological data more satisfactorily than a complementation analysis.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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