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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| Language: | English |
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Vilnius University
2013-10-01
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| Series: | Respectus Philologicus |
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| Online Access: | http://www.rephi.knf.vu.lt/images/24_29/2_7%20Respectus%202013%2024(29)%20%20Online%20Issn%20Gawlik.pdf |