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Publication details [#9027]

Spears, A.K. 1973. Complements of 'significant'-class predicates: A study in the semantics of complementation. Papers from the Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society 9 : 627–638.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

compound sentence | presupposition

Annotation

Semantic differences are found between the for-complements and the indicative complements of predicates of the class 'significant', 'surprising', 'odd', etc. The notion of presupposition is used in the discussion.

Reviewed by

Goossens, Louis. 1977. Complements of 'significant' class predicates: The semantics of 'for'-complements in the light of their Dutch counterparts. In Putseys, Yvan, ed. Aspects of English and Netherlandic grammar. Acco. pp. 101–112.