Aesop's Fables

Types and Location 
of Noun Clauses*

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Figures equal percentages of the total number of subordinate clauses.

Rec No  % DO L % DO M % DO R % PN L % PN M % PN R % OP L % OP M % OP R % DS % SU L % SU M % SU R % AP L % AP M % AP R
Avg 6   20             4            
N01 11   11                          
N02                                
N03     40                          
N04     50                          
N05     40             20            
N06 25   13                          
N07     60                          
N08 29   14                          
N09                                
N10 25                              
Rec No  % DO L % DO M % DO R % PN L % PN M % PN R % OP L % OP M % OP R % DS % SU L % SU M % SU R % AP L % AP M % AP R
N11                   17            
N12     75                          
N13 11   11                          
N14     29                          
N15                   33            
N16     25                          
N17                                
N18     11                          
N19                                
N20 17   25             8            

* Some of the categories represented here probably do not exist. Can, for example, a predicate noun clause be located to the left (before) the verb to which it functions as the predicate noun? Because, however, this table is intended to reflect research, much of which has not yet been done, I have followed the example of Levi-Strauss by creating a matrix of all theoretically possible cases. Delayed subjects are represented only once because by their very definition they are delayed, i.e., to the right of the finite verb.