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OverviewThe 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: J. Rudanko , Kenneth A. LoparoPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.405kg ISBN: 9780230537330ISBN 10: 0230537332 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 05 April 2011 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print ![]() This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of Tables Acknowledgements Introduction On a Class of Resultatives in Recent English Innovative Resultatives in British and American English Emergent Alternation in Complement Selection: The Spread of the Transitive into -ing Construction to Verbs of Unflavored Causation Tracking and Explaining the Transitive out of –ing Pattern in Recent and Current English Watching English Grammar Change: Variation and Change in the Grammar of Accustomed On Sentential Complements of Object , with Evidence from the Old Bailey Corpus Complements of Commit : Variation in the Grammar of an Innovative Verb Concluding Observations Notes ReferencesReviewsAuthor InformationJUHANI RUDANKO Professor of English at the University of Tampere, Finland. His recent work has focused on the system of English predicate complementation in recent centuries, and on the pragmatic analysis of political discourse in the early American Republic. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |