| Changes in Complementation in British and American English: Corpus-Based Studies on Non-Finite Complements in Recent English 2011 Edition Contributor(s): Rudanko, J. (Author), Loparo, Kenneth A. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0230537332 ISBN-13: 9780230537330 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2011 Annotation: Arguing that a corpus-based approach is indispensable for the study of changes of complementation in British and American English, the author examines several central patterns of sentential complementation in a number of electronic corpora to shed light on the emergence and spread of innovative constructions in relatively recent English. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Historical & Comparative - Language Arts & Disciplines | Grammar & Punctuation - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Sociolinguistics |
| Dewey: 425 |
| LCCN: 2011004157 |
| Series: Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.6" W x 8.6" (1.05 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |