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This is a 3-year (July 2018 - July 2021, extended until February 2022) research project in linguistics, which is funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation, through the University of Patras. The project "Selecting wh-Questions: Integrating Theoretical with Experimental and Applied Linguistics" (SeQuest: InTEAL) investigates the syntax and semantics of certain types of interrogative clauses (wh-questions), when used as complements to verbs, and builds on the results of a highly successful 2-year research project on the selection of clauses by verbs, funded by Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, Horizon 2020. The objective of this research project is to take a newly developed, and promising, theoretical approach to clausal complementation, and extend it to new complement types, and in doing so, determine how best to develop and extend the approach. The core theoretical hypothesis to be investigated is whether the selection of an interrogative clause can reduce to an instance of nominalization, or if not, why. The targeted breakthrough towards accomplishing this goal is to bring together cutting-edge theoretical research with experimental and applied methods. To this end, the project will ensure the robustness of the empirical data that will be used to build the theoretical approach by incorporating behavioural linguistic experiments. It will use the theoretical and experimental results to address a major issue in the field of Teaching of Second/Foreign Languages (among others): grammatical errors pertaining to the selection of clauses by predicates.