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CHAPTER 5
COMPLEMENTATION
By complementation is meant a construction in which a
clause is embedded in a constituent of another clause. The
embedded clause is called the complement or the subordinate
clause and the clause in which the complement is embedded is
the main clause. The main clause is also referred to as the
higher clause or the matrix sentence, and the subordinate
clause as the lower clause. Two types of complements are
discussed here, NP complements (clauses embedded in NP's)
and VP complements (clauses embedded in VP's). In the
following example, the clause aneuk gopnyan Ha lid-lO-l motP
'his child has bought a car' has been embedded in the
position of the object NP of the verb peugah 'to tell.'
1. Geu-peugah aneuk gopnyan ka ji-bloe moto.
3r-say child he/sher PERF 3y-buy car
'He/she said that his/her son had bought a car.'
In (2), the complement is not embedded in an NP. The
verb neuk 'to want (to)' is one of the verbs that are never
followed by an NP. A phrase like ji-neuk guru, for example,
means 'he wants to work as a teacher.' guru 'teacher' in the
phrase is a verb with the meaning 'to work as a teacher.
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