Corpora and Complementation: Tracing Sentential Complementation Patterns of Nouns, Adjectives, and Verbs over the Last Three Centuries
Author:   Juhani Rudanko
Publisher:   University Press of America
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9780761817949


Pages:   176
Publication Date:   20 September 2000
Format:   Hardback
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Corpora and Complementation: Tracing Sentential Complementation Patterns of Nouns, Adjectives, and Verbs over the Last Three Centuries


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This text investigates the system of English predicate complementation over three centuries from 1700. It highlights the central parts of the system, the nouns, adjectives and verbs that select complement clauses, with a look at the use of the ""-ing"" over the years. Variation between this pattern and ""to"" infinitives is examined in the complements of different types of matrix predicates and it argues that the ""to"" and ""-ing"" pattern has been spreading in recent centuries.

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Author:   Juhani Rudanko
Publisher:   University Press of America
Imprint:   University Press of America
Dimensions:   Width: 16.40cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.358kg
ISBN:  

9780761817949


ISBN 10:   0761817948
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   20 September 2000
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Two Types of To Complements of Nouns Chapter 3 Two Types of To Complements of Intransitive Verbs Chapter 4 Two Types of To Complements of Transitive Verbs Chapter 5 Into -ing over Three Centuries Chapter 6 Accustomed, Determined: Complements of Adjectives of Two Semantic Domains Chapter 7 Complements of Negative Verbs Chapter 8 Concluding Observations Chapter 9 Bibliography; Index; Index of Nouns, Adjectives, and Verbs

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Juhani Rudanko is a professor of English at the University of Tampere, Finland.

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