Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change: Corpus-Based Studies on Non-Finite Complements in Recent English

Rudanko, J.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2011-01-01

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349359097

DOI: 10.1057/9780230305199

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 208