Sentence examples for finite complements from inspiring English sources

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Utterance verbs, cognition verbs, and evidential/epistemic modals c-select normal finite complements headed by mid linkers, which are strong finite complementizers that allow extractions.

Utterance verbs, non-factive cognition verbs (e.g., "believe"), and epistemic/evidential modals c-select normal finite complements headed by the mid linkers na', mha', cu' M, 'i' M, ga', and ki M. In a normal finite complement, DP extraction is allowed.

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A finite complement clause may also undergo ellipsis.

The examples in (50) to (53) show that a specific category of verbal predicates may select finite complement clauses in which the blocking effect does not take place.

Under non-finite CP analysis, this Type B low linker heading non-finite complements therefore occurs as a non-finite complementizer.

Adverbial verbs and subject control verbs select non-finite complements that are introduced by the type C low linker 'i' LC, and active verbs in resultative constructions select non-finite complements headed by cu' LC.

Non-finite complements are reduced clauses that lack an overt subject; the embedded verbs are not inflected for TAM.

However, Mayrinax has linkers that are homophonous with finite linkers but introduce non-finite complements (e.g., ki' NF, 'i' NF, and cu' NF).

In this sense, the mid linkers that introduce these non-blocking complements are canonical finite complementizers (Liu 2011; Tang 1999).

Linkers may have patterns with finite and non-finite complement clauses (Chen 2010; Tang 1999).

One of the anonymous reviewers pointed out that a progressive aspect kia may block extraction from a non-finite complement.

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