Students often seek a “rule” to understand how complementation works, but “rule” is the wrong paradigm for understanding complementation. The good news is that students can learn which verbs trigger …

Crucial attention is devoted to verb complementation types, verb classes as well as complementation patterns. The notion of verb complementation is based on the fact that a valid sentence can be …

Acquisition of syntax of complementation requires child to hold two propositions in mind One is expressed in a simple sentence frame (complement) The other is a mental attitude directed towards …

Complementation of complex-transitive verbs: Greenbaum & Quirk (pp. 349-353) deal at some length with six patterns of complementation associated with complex-transitive verbs, i.e., verbs whose …

Learning Objectives: • Correctly use terminology about complementation including but not limited to loci, allelic or non-allelic, complementary or non-complementary relationships between mutations. • …

The idea behind ‘complements’ in grammar is that not all verbs can stand alone – many of them need to be ‘completed’ by other words or phrases, such as objects, other verbs, clauses, etc.

A plausible thought is that to answer this question we need to add two new categories to our syntax: the categories of complementizer (C) and complementizer phrase (CP). Using these categories, we …