Changes in complementation in British and American English : corpus-based studies on non-finite complements in recent English / Juhani Rudanko.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rudanko, Martti Juhani.

Series:

Palgrave studies in language history and language change

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Complement.

English language.

English language--Grammar, Comparative.

English language--Great Britain.

Great Britain.

English language--United States.

United States.

Physical Description:

ix, 208 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230537330

0230537332

OCLC:

290433016