The semantics of object clauses

The purpose of this article is to elucidate semantic characteristics of object clauses in Mongolian. Some types of transitive verbs can take a clause form in the place of a direct object, which consists of the subject and the accusative aspectual predicate verb. They include perception verbs, thinking verbs, communication verbs, and action verbs. The object clauses that they take represent limited concepts of meaning expression: THINHG, EVENT, CONTENT OF THOUGHT, CONTENT OF UTTERANCE, and UTTERANCE. Walking along the path of analyzing and studying various data on object clauses, we should find a way leading to the door which indicates that there are significant relationships in meaning between the predicate verb types and the expression concepts.