Changes in Complementation in British and American English Corpus-Based Studies on Non-Finite Complements in Recent English
Description
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.
Keywords
Language Arts & DisciplinesLinguisticsHistorical & ComparativeSociolinguistics
2011Book
Author(s)Martti Juhani Rudanko
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9780230537330
LanguageEnglish
