Adverbial and Argument-Doubling Clauses in Cree - MSpace

In Cree, however, there is evidence that a complement-like clause exi~ts.~ These
clauses have different syntactic characteristics from adverbial clauses. How is this
explained?
In this thesis, I wiil show that there are different types of subordinate clauses in
Cree. In particular we will see that Cree has both adverbial clauses and complement-like
subordinate clauses, distinguished by their syntactic and semantic behaviours. These
clauses can be identified by their relationship to the pronominal arguments within the verb.
Complement-like clauses are argument-doubiing clauses, r-linked to one of the central
arguments in the matrix verb. Adverbial clauses are not. This distinction mirrors the one
in place for pronominal arguments acd NPs.
By 'complement-Iike' I man chat the subrdinate clause has certain characteristics in Iine with
complement clauses in configurational Ianguages. They occur with a restricted set of transitive verbs, and
htnction 'semantically' like a complement. Howwer. these clauses are not nibcategorized by the verb,
and are rot in an argument position. Their 'complement' characteristics do not incluk an argument
position in the sentence hierarchy,