A comprehensive cognitive-functional account of grammaticalised secondary CTP-clauses in English KU Leuven
The aim of this PhD project is to develop a new and comprehensive account of grammaticalised secondary complement-taking-predicate clauses (henceforth CTP-clauses) as in I am sure/I think/there's no way he has left. Secondary CTP-clauses have not yet been described as a full grammatical system offering complex meaning options to language users. Therefore what is lacking, and what the proposed PhD will provide, is an account of secondary ...