Complementation in British and American English
Corpus-Based Studies on Prepositions and Complement Clauses
Published on 15. November 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
140 pages
978-0-7618-3292-8 (ISBN)
Description
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. It offers a unique database of authentic usage for the study of the system of predicate complementation in British and American English. The authors make full use of this database, paying special attention to the language of newspapers and the spoken language in the two main regional varieties of English. The book illustrates a new and methodologically exciting direction in the study of the English language in the twenty-first century.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Lanham, MD
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
215 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7618-3292-8 (9780761832928)
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Juhani Rudanko is Professor of English in the Department of English at the University of Tampere, Finland. His earlier publications include Prepositions and Complement Clauses (1996) and Corpora and Complementation (University Press of America, 2000).
Lea Luodes is a graduate of the University of Tampere, Finland, where she is currently an assistant in the Department of German. Her field of specialization is the use of electronic corpora in the study of language.
Lea Luodes is a graduate of the University of Tampere, Finland, where she is currently an assistant in the Department of German. Her field of specialization is the use of electronic corpora in the study of language.
Content
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
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