Changes in Complementation in British and American English
Corpus-Based Studies on Non-Finite Complements in Recent English| By: | J. Rudanko |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature |
| Print ISBN: | 9780230537330 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780230305199 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2011 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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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.