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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 4   23     2       8           2
N01 12   53             6            
N02     17             17            
N03                   14            
N04                   11            
N05     44                         11
N06 11   22     11                    
* 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.