Adjective complementation : an empirical analysis of adjectives followed by that-clauses / Ilka Mindt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mindt, Ilka.

Series:

Studies in corpus linguistics ; v. 42.

Studies in corpus linguistics ; v. 42

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Adjective.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Clauses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia [Pa.] : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This is the first empirical study to focus on adjectives complemented by that-clauses. The in-depth analysis of more than 50,000 cases taken from the British National Corpus gives comprehensive insights into hitherto neglected relations of lexis and grammar. The result of this corpus-driven study is a novel classification of adjectives based on co-occurrence patterns and corroborated with the help of statistical means. The inductive analysis of corpus data offers new perspectives on and innovative descriptions of well-known phenomena of English grammar, such as extraposition or the resultative construction so…that. It is based on a new methodological approach, which looks at mutual relations of both lexis and grammar in unprecedented ways.

Contents:

Adjective Complementation

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Chapter 1. Corpus linguistics, adjectives and that-clauses

1.1 Why investigate adjectives complemented by that-clauses?

1.2 Approaches in corpus linguistics and the approach in this study

1.2.1 Corpus-based and corpus-driven approaches

1.2.2 Quantity and quality

1.3 What is discussed? - An outline

Chapter 2. Linguistic analysis of adjectives + that-clauses

2.1 The corpus

2.2 Adjectives in the BNC

2.3 Linguistic analysis

2.4 Formal patterns

Chapter 3. Subjects in the matrix clause and the that-clause and their relation to adjectives

3.1 Descriptions of subjects and their relation to adjectives

3.1.1 Adjective classification on the basis of subjects

3.1.2 Subject extraposition

3.1.3 Adjectives in the resultative construction

3.2 Corpus-driven investigation

3.2.1 Subjects in the matrix clause and the that-clause

3.2.2 The classification of adjectives

3.3 Revisiting the adjective classification on the basis of the subjects

3.3.1 Subjects and the two constructions

3.3.2 Revisiting subject extraposition

3.4 From lexico-grammar to text

3.5 Summary

Chapter 4. Verb-adjective combinations

4.1 Research on verb-adjective combinations

4.2 Corpus-driven investigation

4.2.1 The frequencies of verbs in the matrix clause

4.2.2 Investigating co-occurrences between MAKE and the adjectives certain, clear and sure

4.3 Revisiting MAKE and the adjectives certain, clear and sure

4.4 Conclusion

Chapter 5. Objects in the matrix clause

5.1 Descriptions of objects preceding 'adjective + that-clause'

5.2 Corpus-driven investigation

5.2.1 Subjects in matrix clauses containing an object

5.2.2 Objects in the matrix clause

5.2.3 A classification of adjectives.

5.3 Revisiting objects followed by 'adjective + that-clause'

5.4 Conclusion

Chapter 6. Adverbs preceding adjectives

6.1 Descriptions of adverbs preceding 'adjective + that-clause'

6.2 Corpus-driven investigation

6.2.1 Frequencies

6.2.2 The adverb not as modifier of 'adjective + that-clause'

6.2.3 Two semantic constructions

6.3 Revisiting adverbs followed by 'adjective + that-clause'

6.4 Conclusion

Chapter 7. That versus zero that

7.1 Research on that and zero that

7.1.1 Diachronic studies of that and zero that

7.1.2 Synchronic studies of that and zero that

7.2 Corpus-driven investigation

7.3 Revisiting that and zero that

7.4 Conclusion

Chapter 8. The verb phrase in the that-clause

8.1 Research on verb phrases in that-clauses

8.2 Corpus-driven investigation

8.2.1 The relation between adjectives and the structure of the verb phrase

8.2.2 The relation between adjectives and modal verbs within the verb phrase in the that-clause

8.2.3 The relation between adjectives and subjunctive verb phrases

8.2.4 The relation between experiential and evaluative adjectives and the structure of the verb phrase

8.3 Revisiting the verb phrase in the that-clause

8.4 Conclusion

Chapter 9. Making the implicit explicit

9.1 A new perspective on adjectives followed by that-clauses

9.1.1 The explanative construction

9.1.2 The resultative construction

9.1.3 The formal pattern 'verb MAKE + adjective certain, clear, sure'

9.2 Methodological considerations

9.2.1 Co-occurrence patterns

9.2.2 Distributions

9.2.3 Constructions

References

Appendix. Lee's genre categorization

Index

The series Studies in Corpus Linguistics.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613093172

9781283093170

1283093170

9789027287267

9027287260

OCLC:

717485035