On If and Whether Complement Clauses of ‘See’, ‘Wonder’, and ‘Know’ in Contemporary Spoken Academic American English: A Corpus-Based Study

The main goal of this article is to investigate the distribution of two apparently vying finite complementation patterns—if and whether clauses—accompanying three mental verbs (see, wonder, and know) in the MICASE corpus of spoken academic American English. The default introspective theoretical assu...

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Main Author: Oskar Gawlik
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Vilnius University 2013-10-01
Series:Respectus Philologicus
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Online Access:http://www.journals.vu.lt/respectus-philologicus/article/view/13822