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Topics of the day:



 1. help on linguistic terminology

 2. NEH funding update (another long one)

 3. Mary Ann (or Marianne) quote (fwd)



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Date:  Fri, 18 Aug 1995 01:18:35 EDT

From:  Terry Lynn Irons <t.irons[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MSUACAD.MOREHEAD-ST.EDU>

Subject: Re: help on linguistic terminology



Following on the heels of DMLance's comments, I would suggest including

the term "noun clause" in place of complement to account for at least

one of your examples.



In this regard a useful distinction is to be made between role or function

in the "sentence" and structure of the constituent performing that function.

Several of your examples have varying structures filling the object role

or function in the sentence. GB theory has highlighted the problems with

these constructions, but of course it has not given us explanatory tools

to talk about them in a pedagogical context. I suggest looking at

Pence & Emery's A Grammar of Present-Day English (circa 40s) for some

really helpful ideas.



Terry



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