Complements and constructions : corpus-based studies on sentential complements in English in recent centuries / Juhani Rudanko.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rudanko, Martti Juhani.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Complement.

English language.

Physical Description:

130 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2002]

Contents:

Chapter 2 Alternate Object Control Structures: Into -ing vs. To Infinitive Complements 5

Chapter 3 Into -ing as a Construction 13

Chapter 4 From -ing over Three Centuries: Transitive Verbs 23

Chapter 5 From -ing over Three Centuries: Intransitive Verbs 61

Chapter 6 To -ing over Three Centuries: Intransitive Verbs 71

Chapter 7 To -ing over Three Centuries: Transitive Verbs 89

Chapter 8 Horror Aequi in the Eighteenth Century 101.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [119]-123) and indexes.

ISBN:

0761822747

OCLC:

49226380