(By Sonia Cristofaro): "Complement clauses are usually defined on the basis of syntactic criteria such as embedding, i.e. the fact that the complement clause functions as an argument of the main predicate (see for instance Noonan 1985: 46). However, as was done for purpose, ‘when’ and reason clauses (Chapters 125, 126, 127), utterance complements will be defined here in functional, rather than syntactic, terms. A complement construction is regarded as one expressing a particular relation between events, such that one event (the one coded by the main clause, or the main event) entails that another event (the one coded by the complement clause, or the dependent event) is referred to (for a detailed discussion of this definition, see Cristofaro 2003: ch. 2, 5)."