ABSTRACT
Notwithstandingthedistinctivegrammaticalfunctionof comparativeandrelativeclauses,theirinternalsyntactic structureissimilartothatofthepredicatecomplement types-- anSprefixedbya"conjunctiveparticle"such asthan,.!!.•that.Whereasthepredicategoverns(inpart) thechoiceofparticleinthepredicatecomplement,thedeterminergoverns(inpart)thecomparativeorrelativeparticle.(SeeSelkirk1970;Bowers1968).If,then,we speakof"predicatecomplementation",itisnolessappropriatetospeakof"determinercomplementation".
