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Author Rudanko, Martti Juhani.

Title Changes in complementation in British and American English : corpus-based studies on non-finite complements in recent English / Juhani Rudanko
Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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Series Palgrave studies in language history and language change
Palgrave studies in language history and language change.
Contents List 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 ₆ing 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 -- References
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction * Innovative Resultatives and the Perspective of Construction Grammar * Emergent Alternation in Complement Selection: The Spread of the Transitive into -ing Pattern to Unflavored * Verbs of Causation * Innovative Uses of the Transitive out of -ing Pattern in Different Text Types * Watching English Grammar Change: Sentential Complements of the Adjective Accustomed * Complements of Consent * Change Completed: Sentential Complements of the Verb Object * Sentential Complements of the Intrasitive Verb Commit * Conclusion * References * Index
Summary This book is for teachers and students of English, native and non-native, and all those who take an interest in change and variation in the language. The core grammar of the language has been undergoing major changes in recent times, sometimes summed up under the label of the Great Complement Shift, and this book provides fresh perspectives on major aspects of the Shift. € The author documents changes and innovative trends in recent English grammar, taking both British and American English into account, drawing on a unique combination of large electronic corpora, including the Bank of English Corpus, the TIME Corpus, and the BNC. He adopts the method of in-depth case studies of core patterns in the language, with a focus on infinitive and ₆ing clauses, and the analysis of the patterns as constructions, combining a form with a meaning, provides fresh insights into the explanatory principles to account for change and variation in recent British and American English
"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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-206) and index
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Subject English language -- Complement.
English language -- Grammar, Comparative.
English language -- Great Britain
English language -- United States.
Grammar, syntax -- English -- United Kingdom, Great Britain -- USA.
Sociolinguistics -- English -- United Kingdom, Great Britain -- USA.
Language: history & general works -- English -- United Kingdom, Great Britain -- USA.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Reference.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General.
Languages.
English language
English language -- Complement
English language -- Grammar, Comparative
Great Britain
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780230305199
0230305199