If the verb in main clauses is inflected for subject or object agreement, then the verb in any sentence-like complement type will also be inflected for subject or object agreement.
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IF the verb in main clauses is inflected for subject or object agreement, THEN the verb in any sentence-like complement type will also be inflected for subject or object agreement.
All languages have some sort of sentence-like complement type, one that without its complementizers has roughly the same syntactic form as a main clause. In a sentence-like complement type, the predicate has the same syntactic relation to its subject and its other arguments that it has in syntactic main clauses: it remains syntactically and morphologically a verb, and any case marking in subjects or objects will have the same form as in main clause.E. g. in English, the sentence Burt is a chicken farmer is identical in form to the sentence-like complement in Max knows [that Burt is a chicken farmer].
All languages have some sort of sentence-like complement type, one that without its complementizers has roughly the same syntactic form as a main clause. In a sentence-like complement type, the predicate has the same syntactic relation to its subject and its other arguments that it has in syntactic main clauses: it remains syntactically and morphologically a verb, and any case marking in subjects or objects will have the same form as in main clause.E. g. in English, the sentence Burt is a chicken farmer is identical in form to the sentence-like complement in Max knows [that Burt is a chicken farmer].