Abstrakt:
The paper deals with the seemingly anomalous constituent order in complex-transitive structures, where the object that-clause is not in extraposition, but follows the object complement without being introduced by the anticipatory pronoun it. Although such structures are rare, they are noticeably more frequent after the verb make followed by the adjectives clear and plain as object complements. This suggests that these lexical sequences are becoming grammaticalised and approach the status of complex verbs. In addition, the relatively higher frequency of postposed object clauses after make clear compared to other complex-transitive predicates might be accounted for in semantic terms.
