Changes in Complementation in British and American English Corpus-Based Studies on Non-Finite Complements in Recent English |
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| Author:
| Rudanko, Juhani |
| Editor:
| Loparo, Kenneth A. |
| Series title: | Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-230-53733-0 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2011 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan Limited
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| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $54.99 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.