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

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Weight: 285g

208 pages

1st ed. 2011