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Changes in Complementation in British and American English
Corpus-Based Studies on Non-Finite Complements in Recent English
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eBook - PDF
Changes in Complementation in British and American English
Corpus-Based Studies on Non-Finite Complements in Recent English
About this book
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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Yes, you can access Changes in Complementation in British and American English by J. Rudanko, Charles Jones in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Historical & Comparative Linguistics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Series page
- Also by
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 On a Class of Resultatives in Recent English
- 3 Innovative Resultatives in British and American English
- 4 Emergent Alternation in Complement Selection: The Spread of the Transitive into -ing Construction to Verbs of Unflavored Causation
- 5 Tracking and Explaining the Transitive out of -ing Pattern in Recent and Current English
- 6 Watching English Grammar Change: Variation and Change in the Grammar of Accustomed
- 7 On Sentential Complements of Object, with Evidence from the Old Bailey Corpus
- 8 Complements of Commit: Variation in the Grammar of an Innovative Verb
- 9 Concluding Observations
- Notes
- References
- Index