clausal

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree English clause Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English clausal From clause + -al.

1. Of, pertaining to, or constructed using clauses.

   “In contrast, a sentence complement is a clause that is lexically specified by a particular noun, like fact[…], and consequently, there is no missing position in the embedded clause. Other nouns with clausal components include belief, report, statement, possibility and many others. These nouns take a clause as part of their meaning. For fact, for example, the clausal complement describes the content of the fact.”