E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten
Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change
Rudanko / Jones Changes in Complementation in British and American English
2011
ISBN: 978-0-230-30519-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
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Corpus-Based Studies on Non-Finite Complements in Recent English
E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten
Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change
ISBN: 978-0-230-30519-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
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.
JUHANI RUDANKO Professor of English at the University of Tampere, Finland. His recent work has focused on the system of English predicate complementation in recent centuries, and on the pragmatic analysis of political discourse in the early American Republic.




