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9780230537330

Changes in Complementation in British and American English Corpus-Based Studies on Non-Finite Complements in Recent English

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  • ISBN13:

    9780230537330

  • ISBN10:

    0230537332

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2011-05-15
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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Summary

Arguing that a corpus-based approach is indispensable for the study of changes of complementation in British and American English, the author examines several central patterns of sentential complementation in a number of electronic corpora to shed light on the emergence and spread of innovative constructions in relatively recent English.

Author Biography

JUHANI RUDANKO is Professor of English at the University of Tampere, Finland.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Innovative Resultatives and the Perspective of Construction Grammar Emergent Alternation in Complement Selection
The Spread of the Transitiveinto -ingPattern to Unflavored Verbs of Causation Innovative Uses of the Transitiveout of -ingPattern in Different Text Types Watching English Grammar Change
Sentential Complements of the AdjectiveAccustomed Complements ofConsent Change Completed
Sentential Complements of the Verb Object Sentential Complements of the Intrasitive VerbCommit
Conclusion
References
Index
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