Thompson2002
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Thompson2002 |
| Author(s) | Sandra A. Thompson |
| Title | “Object complements” and conversation: towards a realistic account |
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| Tag(s) | IL, Stance, Compliments |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Journal | Studies in Language |
| Volume | 26 |
| Number | 1 |
| Pages | 125–164 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1075/sl.26.1.05tho |
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Abstract
Based on a corpus of conversational English, I argue that the standard view of complements as subordinate clauses in a grammatical relation with a complement-taking predicate is not supported by the data. Rather, what has been described under the heading of complementation can be understood in terms of epistemic/evidential/evaluative formulaic fragments expressing speaker stance toward the content of a clause. This analysis, in which CTPs and their subjects are stored and retrieved as formulaic stance markers accounts for the grammatical, pragmatic, prosodic, and phonological data more satisfactorily than a complementation analysis.
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