Changes in complementation in british and american english: corpus-based studies on non-finite complements in recent english
Auteur :
Rudanko, J.
Éditeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN :
9781349359097
Date de publication :
1 janv. 2011
Dimensions :
21,6 x 14,0 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
The 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.