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• Noun clause
  ...argument]], so that ''noun clause'' is basically a synonym of [[complement clause]]. This term seems to be older than ''complement clause''. It appears to be found primarily in descriptive works.
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• Content clause
  The term '''content clause''' is a rare synonym of [[complement clause]]. The German equivalent ''Inhaltssatz'' was the standard term for 'complement clause' in the earlier German grammatical tradition.
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• Completive clause
  The term '''completive clause''' is occasionally used for [[complement clause]]. [[Category:Clause type]]
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• Clausal complement
  A '''clausal complement''' is the same as a [[complement clause]]. ...rer than ''complement clause'', presumably because the fact that it is a [[clause]] is more salient than the fact that it is a [[complement]].
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• Complement clause
  A '''complement clause''' is a clause that is an [[argument]]. ...ad of an NP (noun phrase), as a core argument. This is called a complement clause."'' (Dixon 2006:1)
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• Appositive relative clause
  ...clause''' is sometimes used in the same sense as [[nonrestrictive relative clause]]. ...Catholic priest, lives in Lima.'' (Contrasting with a restrictive relative clause, e.g. ''The woman who wants to become an Anglican priest'' is my cousin.)
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• Wh-infinitive
  [[Category:Clause type]]
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• Focus (information structure)
  In cases of argument focus any constituent of a clause, be it subject, object or oblique can be focused. Some authors (e.g. Van Va ...e predicate is in focus. This type is claimed to be a universally unmarked type of focus correlating with the topic-comment structure as the unmarked pragm
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• Appositive noun phrase
  ...]] that is coreferential with a [[bound pronoun]] and occurs in the same [[clause]], but is not considered to occupy an [[argument position]]. The argument p *[[apposition]] (a type of NP modifier)
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• Donkey anaphora
  '''Donkey anaphora''' is a type of [[anaphoric relation]] obtaining in a range of constructions that appare ...pes of analyses have been proposed, both of which face various problems. E-type analyses (Cooper 1979, Evans 1977, Heim 1990) take the pronoun to function
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• Restructuring
  '''Restructuring''' is a process which unites two clauses yielding one [[clause]]. ...formalization of Restructuring as a rule is available. A [[verb raising]] type of analysis, which would create a verb cluster, must be rejected, because n
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• Manner predication
  '''Manner predication''' is a type of [[secondary predication]] which ascribes a property to an event. The exp ==== Coordinate clause constructions ====
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• Coordination
  ...' refers to syntactic constructions in which two or more units of the same type are combined into a larger unit and still have the same semantic relations *coordination of [[clause]]s: ''The children are playing and the grown-ups are talking.''
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• Cohesion
  Substitution as another type of cohesive relation, or cohesive tie, is the process in which one item wit ...lacement of a verb by “do”) and [[clausal substitution]] (replacement of a clause by “so, not”) (HALLIDAY & HASAN 1994: 90f.).
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• Satzmodus
  *P. Portner & R. Zanuttini, Project 'Clause Types: Form and Force in Grammatical Theory'. Linguistics Department of Geo ...sical Classification: A Typological Look at Searle’s Concept of Illocution Type. Revue Internationale de Philosophie 2001/217, 209-225.
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• Tenses of English
  ...future tense marker in English is ''will'', as it combines freely with any type of verb and aspect. If a clause contains an adverbial which specifies the situation time, as in ''She hasn'
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