Changes in complementation in British and American English
Subtitle: corpus-based studies on non-finite complements in recent English
By: Juhani Rudanko
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9780230537330
Subjects: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General; Comparative Grammar; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General; Complement; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Reference; English language
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction * Innovative Resultatives and the Perspective of Construction Grammar * Emergent Alternation in Complement Selection: The Spread of the Transitive into -ing Pattern to Unflavored * Verbs of Causation * Innovative Uses of the Transitive out of -ing Pattern in Different Text Types * Watching English Grammar Change: Sentential Complements of the Adjective Accustomed * Complements of Consent * Change Completed: Sentential Complements of the Verb Object * Sentential Complements of the Intrasitive Verb Commit * Conclusion * References * Index.