ABSTRACT

Fromabriefevaluationofthepaucityofsurfacemarkersofclause

structure,itcouldbeconcludedthatembeddingisnonexistentinASL.

Sentencescouldbecomposedofeithersimpleorpolysententialclause

structures.SuchaproposalhasbeenentertainedbyThompson(1977).

However,argumentspresentedinthefollowingsectionswillshowthat

sentencescontainingmatrixpredicatessuchasDECIDE,HOPE,