<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Thanks to those who have recommended this paper:<br><br>Karsten Schmidtke-Bode and Holger Diessel, "Cross-linguistic patterns in
the structure, function, and position of (object) complement clauses".
Linguistics 2017: 55(1): 1-38<br><br></div>and GramCats. <br><br></div>Johanna<br><div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 7:51 PM, Johanna NICHOLS <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johanna@berkeley.edu" target="_blank">johanna@berkeley.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>This request is for a colleague who's not on the list. Does anyone know of recent cross-linguistic work on the positional tendencies of complement clauses? It's often said that postverbal or sentence-final position is preferred or most frequent, regardless of the order of A, O, and V. That is what Dryer 1980 found, using a survey of 31 languages. We wonder if there has been a larger survey since then.<br><br></div>Thanks for any information,<br><br></div>Johanna Nichols<br></div>
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