Changes in Complementation in British and American English : Corpus-Based Studies on Non-Finite Complements in Recent 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 Americ...

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Main Author:	Rudanko, Juhani (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Series:	Palgrave studies in language history and language change.
Subjects:	Linguistics. Grammar. Historical Linguistics. Language and Literature. Sociolinguistics. Grammar, Comparative and general. Historical linguistics. Language and languages > Grammars. Philology. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book