Juhani Rudanko, Lea Luodes

Complementation in British and American English

Corpus-Based Studies on Prepositions and Complement Clauses

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Produktbeschreibung

Complementation in British and American English applies a new empirical methodology to the study of the English language. It focuses on predicate complementation as a core area of English grammar on the basis of the Bank of English Corpus. At over 600 million words, this electronic corpus is the largest systematic corpus of the language in existence today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 140
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 215g
• ISBN-13: 9780761832928
• ISBN-10: 0761832920
• Artikelnr.: 21847028

Autorenporträt

By Juhani Rudanko and Lea Luodes

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 The Power of a Pattern:
A Case Study of Linguistic Innovativeness Chapter 4 Transitive Verbs
Selecting out of -ing Complements Chapter 5 Intransitive Verbs Selecting on
-ing Complements Chapter 6 Adjectives Selecting to Infinitive and to -ing
Complements Chapter 7 Intransitive Verbs Selecting to Infinitive and to
-ing Complements Chapter 8 Nouns Selecting to Infinitive and to -ing
Complements Chapter 9 Intransitive Verbs Selecting towards/toward -ing
Chapter 10 Concluding Observations