Changes in Complementation in British and American English

Name: Changes in Complementation in British and American English
Author: J. Rudanko

Corpus-Based Studies on Non-Finite Complements in Recent English

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Paperback, blz. | Engels

Palgrave Macmillan UK | e druk, 2011

ISBN13: 9781349359097

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The book shows how the system of English predicate complementation has been undergoing an amazing amount of variation and change in recent centuries, and identifies explanatory principles to account for this change and variation, with evidence from large electronic corpora of both British and American English.

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ISBN13:9781349359097

Taal:Engels

Bindwijze:paperback

Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK

Serie:Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change

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List of Tables Acknowledgements Introduction On a Class of Resultatives in Recent English Innovative Resultatives in British and American English Emergent Alternation in Complement Selection: The Spread of the Transitive into -ing Construction to Verbs of Unflavored Causation Tracking and Explaining the Transitive out of –ing Pattern in Recent and Current English Watching English Grammar Change: Variation and Change in the Grammar of Accustomed On Sentential Complements of Object , with Evidence from the Old Bailey Corpus Complements of Commit : Variation in the Grammar of an Innovative Verb Concluding Observations Notes References

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