Sentence examples for sentential complement from inspiring English sources

(Indeed, as noted above, this content is usually that of the sentential complement used to specify the attitude).

Perhaps the largest and most diverse class of mental states are those that seem to involve various relations to thoughts: these are the states that are typically described by verbs that take a sentential complement as their direct object.

Philosophers have called such mental states "propositional attitudes" because they seem in one way or another to involve some attitude that an agent a human being, an animal, or perhaps a machine has to a thought or proposition, which again is often taken to be the meaning of the sentential complement that expresses it.

Based on distributional differences in nominalization, adjectival/adverbial modification, and sentential complement, the study proposed that the two verbs differ with a semantic distinction in inchoative vs. homogeneous state (ibid.: 449-453).

For example, a class of verbs called 'factives' (e.g. realize, know) trigger the presupposition that the events or states conveyed by their sentential complements are true.

To a first approximation, concepts are constituents of thoughts or propositions in much the same way that words are constituents of the sentential complements by which thoughts or propositions are expressed.

This is a topic of enormous controversy, but one can begin to get a grasp of it by noticing that thoughts are typically referred to, or expressed by, sentential complements, or clauses beginning with that.

Note that sentential complements need not always be expressed by a "that" clause: the word that (in English) may often be deleted, and a "to" clause is often used instead of a "that" clause when the subject of the complement is the same as the subject of the entire sentence; Mary wants to be a doctor means the same as Mary desires that she herself be a doctor.

Epistemic modality is expressed by sentential adverbs which take an entire proposition as their complement.

Contrastingly, the relation between epistemic readings and the aspectual features of their complement is less straightforward due to the fact that epistemic values are predominantly expressed by sentential adverbs.

So begins Lionel Ziprin's "Sentential Metaphrastic," a "poem in progress" of more than a thousand pages.