Objective The nature of the relationship between a verb and its grammatical dependents is an ancient questionin linguistics, tracing back to Aristotelian notions of the subject-predicate relation. A major debate in current theoreticallinguistics is how to model this, and the standard view (that the relevant information is stored as part of thegrammatical specification of the verb) has been challenged by the development of a new idea: that both the verband its noun-dependents are embedded inside syntactic hierarchies of fundamentally grammatical elements (socalled“functional categories” encoding notions such as tense, aspect, definiteness and numerosity) and that it is theinteraction between the functional category structures that embed the verb and the noun that is responsible for establishingthe dependency. This viewpoint has allowed a new and empirically successful understanding of the relationshipbetween a verb and its dependents, capturing how definiteness and grammatical number interact with aspectualcategories across different languages. However, this new approach has never been applied to the other majorgrammatical dependency that verbs set up: clausal complementation. That is, the parallel relation between averb and its clausal, as opposed to nominal, dependents. This project investigates, using interdisciplinary methods,whether these new theoretical ideas can be applied to this empirical domain, comparing two languages (Greek andEnglish) whose clausal syntax is quite different. The objective is to both test the theoretical model in a new empiricalarea, leading to new findings about how clausal embedding works syntactically, and to determine how best todevelop and extend the model to domains that it was not designed for. The action requires extended training in experimentalmethods and design (both behavioural and neurolinguistic), statistical analysis, development of systematictheoretical models, as well as interaction with a non-academic partner Fields of science humanitieslanguages and literaturegeneral language studieshumanitieslanguages and literaturelinguistics Programme(s) H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Main Programme H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility Topic(s) MSCA-IF-2014-EF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) Call for proposal H2020-MSCA-IF-2014 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme MSCA-IF-EF-ST - Standard EF Coordinator QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Net EU contribution € 183 454,80 Address 327 MILE END ROAD E1 4NS London United Kingdom See on map Region London Inner London — East Tower Hamlets Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 183 454,80