ID - 16438048 TI - The structure of complementation PY - 1982 VL - 3 SN - 9064391653 9064391602 1299676863 9027271267 9789064391651 9789027271266 9781299676862 PB - Ghent : E. Story-Scientia, DB - UniCat KW - Portuguese language KW - Parecer (The Portuguese word) KW - Greek language KW - Syntax KW - Complement KW - Agreement KW - Case KW - Parecer (The Portuguese word). KW - Agreement. KW - Case. KW - Complement. KW - Syntax. KW - Grammaire KW - Grammatica KW - Linguistique KW - Portugais (langue) KW - Portugees KW - Taalkunde KW - 806.90 KW - -Greek language KW - -Parecer (The Portuguese word) KW - -Portuguese language KW - 806.90 Portugees. Portugese taalkunde KW - Portugees. Portugese taalkunde KW - Romance languages KW - Classical languages KW - Indo-European languages KW - Classical philology KW - Greek philology KW - Etymology KW - -806.90 Portugees. Portugese taalkunde KW - Grec (Langue) KW - Portugais (Langue) KW - Cas KW - Syntaxe KW - Grammar, Generative. KW - Portuguese language - Syntax KW - Portuguese language - Complement KW - Portuguese language - Agreement KW - Greek language - Case KW - Greek language - Agreement UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:16438048 AB - The study of complementation has received considerable attention in generative studies. Following Rosenbaum's (1967) pioneering study of the English complement system, there are extensive studies by Lakoff (1965), Ross (1967), Perlmutter (1971) and a large number of publications. More recent detailed studies are Emonds (1970) and Bresnan (1972) . These studies have increased enormously the body of factual knowledge about the complement system of English, and about the phenomenon of complementation in general. As a consequence there are a number of empirical hypotheses about the structure of human languages which must now be tested against facts of different languages. Of these hypotheses, perhaps the most interesting is that the grammars of all languages make use of the principle of the transformational cycle. Testing this hypothesis constitutes one of the main concerns of the present book. Furthermore, these studies have also raised numerous interesting empirical issues of great importance for linguistic theory, most of which are still awaiting fresh evidence from different languages in order to be settled. This study is directed towards resolving some of these issues by adducing relevent data, primarily from Portuguese. ER -