The purpose and the aim of this thesis are to investigate linguistic phenomena of complementation, analyzing cross-language data in the theoretical framework of language typology.
I. The location of complementizer: The complementation type is differ...
The purpose and the aim of this thesis are to investigate linguistic phenomena of complementation, analyzing cross-language data in the theoretical framework of language typology.
I. The location of complementizer: The complementation type is different from language to language, and the location of complementizer is prepositional in English, Lango, Russian (SVO) and is postpositional or prepositional in Yaqui (SVO) and is postpositional in Kanuri, Korean (SOV).
II. In the semantic analysis of complementation:
1) The style and meaning of complementation are mainly controlled by the features of verb.
In Bulgarian, the complementizer ce is limited in indicative and da in subjunctive. In Korean, factive complementizer selects factive verb, and nonfactive complentizer selects nonfactive verb.
2) The kinds of CTP are classified:
a) Utterance predicates
b) Predicates of propositional attitude
c) Pretence predicates
d) Commentative predicates
e) KAK predicates
f) Fearing predicates
g) Desiderative predicates
h) Causative predicates
III. In syntactic consideration of complementation:
1) In equi-deletion, when the matrix subject and object are coreferential with those of complementation respectively, deletions are obligatory. Then the matrix subject and the matrix object are coreferential with the complementation subject in Korean, deletions are optional.
2) There are four kinds of raising: SU→0, SU→SU, 0→SU, and 0→0. I can renew F. R. Eckman's list: in Irish, 0→0 raising can be possible, in Korean, S→0 raising possible and Lango S→0 impossible.
3) French has both clause union and simple clause reduction.
4) In distribution of complementation, 'poss-ing' is possible in interrogative and descriptive construction; and sentence type complementation is possible in descriptive construction.
5) Negative raising represents different meanings according to their feature of CTP.