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Verb Complements and Sentence Complements : Two Different Types of Relation

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Problems in Syntax

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Many syntactic analyses distinguish between “verb complement” and “sentence complement”, whatever may be the vocabulary they use to express this distinction 1. For French, the adverb “heureusement” (happily) often exemplifies the difference between the two types.

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Liliane Tasmowski Dominique Willems

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Blanche-Benveniste, C. (1983). Verb Complements and Sentence Complements : Two Different Types of Relation. In: Tasmowski, L., Willems, D. (eds) Problems in Syntax. Studies in Language. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2727-1_3

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