Abstract
A content clause is a that-clause that is in apposition to a noun and expresses its content. The present paper is an attempt to consider what kinds of nouns can take a content clause and to explain how the content clause construction is related to some other similar constructions. It will be claimed that nouns interpretable as something composed of words can take a content clause and that the CONTAINER-CONTENT image-schema suggests a perspective from which to relate the content clause construction to the relative (adverbial) clause construction.
