Students often seek a “rule” to understand how complementation works, but “rule” is the wrong paradigm for understanding complementation. The good news is that students can learn which verbs trigger …

complementation test consists of classical Mendelian genetic crosses to determine if one mutant can complement another or, in other words, produce the wild type phenotype.

In this chapter we are concerned with sentential complementation, hereafter referred to simply as ‘complementation’. By complementation we mean the syntactic situation that arises when a notional …

The idea behind ‘complements’ in grammar is that not all verbs can stand alone – many of them need to be ‘completed’ by other words or phrases, such as objects, other verbs, clauses, etc.

Volumes in this series will be functionally and typologically oriented, cove ring specific topics in language by collecting together data from a wide variety of languages and language typologies.

Learning Objectives: • Correctly use terminology about complementation including but not limited to loci, allelic or non-allelic, complementary or non-complementary relationships between mutations. • …

A plausible thought is that to answer this question we need to add two new categories to our syntax: the categories of complementizer (C) and complementizer phrase (CP). Using these categories, we …