Perspectives on Complementation [electronic resource] : Structure, Variation and Boundaries /
Höglund, M.editor.
Rickman, P.editor.
Rudanko, J.editor.
Havu, J.editor.
This book presents the latest work in the field of complementation studies. Leading scholars and upcoming researchers in the area approach complementation from various perspectives and different frameworks, such as Cognitive Grammar and construction grammars, to offer a broad survey of the field and provide thought-provoking reading.
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Notes on the Contributors; List of Glossing Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I Structure; 1 Constructions License Verb Frames; 2 Inside Out: Productive German Prepositional Objects as an Example of Complements Selecting Heads; 3 A Cross-Linguistic Perspective on Complementation in the Tough Construction; Part II Variation; 4 Variability in Clausal Verb Complementation: the Case of Admit; 5 The Embedded Negation Constraint and the Choice between More or Less Explicit Clausal Structures in English
6 'Wheedled Me into Lending Him My Best Hunter': Comparing the Emergence of the Transitive into -ing Construction in British and American English7 Prepositions and Sentential Complements: the Case of Waste and Spend; 8 From Doubt to Supposition: the Construction-Speci. c Meaning Change of the Finnish Verb Epäillä; Part III Boundaries; 9 Multiple Sources in Language Change: the Role of Free Adjuncts and Absolutes in the Formation of English ACC-ing Gerundives; 10 The Relation between Hypotactic Integration and Complementation in Cognitive Grammar
11 Control in Free Adjuncts in English and French: a Corpus-Based Semantico-Pragmatic AccountIndex
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
This book presents the latest work in the field of complementation studies. Leading scholars and upcoming researchers in the area approach complementation from various perspectives and different frameworks, such as Cognitive Grammar and construction grammars, to offer a broad survey of the field and provide thought-provoking reading.
Corpora (Linguistics).
Syntax.
Grammar.
Semantics.
Corpus Linguistics.
Syntax.
Grammar.
Semantics.