Verbal Complementation In Awingi

This paper attempts to describe complements of Awinr irnverbs following the X-Bar Theory of phrase structurernrules of Jackendoff (1977), Chomsky (1981,1986) and Radfordrn(1981) .rnThe theory claims that in all natural languages, thernmajor lexical categories, that is, nouns, verbs, adjectivesrnand prepositions have similar complement structuresrnand levels of projection. 'fhe study shows that verbs inrnthis language take A"', N' ", P'" and CPs at V'; VPadverbialsrnat V" ; and parentheticals at V" '. Thisrnis consistent with the claim of the theory.rnThe position of the head in relation to its complementrni s a lways final which fixes the parameter of Awingi asrna head-final language.

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