The Noun Phrase in English

The omission of the complementiser that after lexical verbs, as in I think she went home or I guess she did not enjoy herself , has been studied intensively from a diachronic and synchronic perspective. In contrast, that- complementiser omission in other contexts (e.g. the truth is she never wanted to come anyway or the problem is she does not like these people ) has not received much attention. We report the results of a multi-level corpus-based study investigating the diachronic development of