Changes in Complementation in British and American English
Corpus-Based Studies on Non-Finite Complements in Recent English
J Rudanko author Charles Jones editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
Published:1st Jan '11
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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.
ISBN: 9781349359097
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 285g
208 pages
1st ed. 2011