ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with clausal complements and complementisers in the French creoles. It is well known that lexical categories such as verbs, nouns, adjectives, and prepositions select complements including nominal, prepositional, and clausal complements. The clausal complements which they select may be declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamative. Declarative and interrogative complements can be fi nite or non-fi nite, and the type of complement which is chosen depends on the semantics of the complementtaking predicates. This chapter surveys the different types of complements in the French creoles and the different complementisers which introduce them. It begins with a short overview of clausal complements in English and French and then focuses on clausal complements in the French creoles and the complementisers which introduce them.
