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Are there any natural languages in the subordination of a clause is marked only in the matrix clause?
In English, and many other languages, subordination is often marked in the subordinate clause.
So complement clauses can, for example, begin with a complementizer such as English "that."
e.g. "I ...
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Clauses in sentences with questioning verbs, using "if"/"whether"
A friend who is a Spanish native speaker said something like this to me recently (in English)
*He told her if she was Asian
That sentence would be fine if the verb were "ask", but "tell" cannot ...
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Sentence with two PPs, without recursive embedding of either in the other
I'm having some difficulty with finding an example of an English sentence which includes two consecutive prepositional phrases without embedding. Would "We ran off into the sunset" qualify?
