Changes in complementation in British and American English

corpus-based studies on non-finite complements in recent English

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Changes in complementation in British and American English

corpus-based studies on non-finite complements in recent English

"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"--

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217

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Table of Contents

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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.

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Includes index.

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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, New York

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Dewey Decimal Class
425
Library of Congress
PE1319 .R835 2011, P140-143.3P40-40.5P1

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Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
217

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OL25077100M
Internet Archive
changescomplemen00ruda
ISBN 13
9780230537330
LCCN
2011004157
OCLC/WorldCat
290433016

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