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Descriptive surveys of clausal verb complementation in English (see, for instance, Quirk et al. 1985: 1170–220, Declerck 1991: 468–87, 501–13) show that different complement-taking predicates (CTPs) (or, matrix verbs) may combine with different complement types; in other words, that ‘the different complement types in a language distribute differently over the inventory of complement-taking predicates’ (De Smet 2013: 19). As such, the matrix verb ask takes the to-infinitive, while the verb anticipate combines with a gerundial -ing-clause.
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Cuyckens, H., D’hoedt, F. (2015). Variability in Clausal Verb Complementation: the Case of Admit . In: Höglund, M., Rickman, P., Rudanko, J., Havu, J. (eds) Perspectives on Complementation. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137450067_5
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