"Arguing that a corpus-based approach is indispensable for the study of changes of complementation in British and American English, the author examines several central patterns of sentential complemen
This book is for those interested in freedom of speech. Today the American Bill of Rights, with its famous First Amendment, is generally taken for granted, but when James Madison proposed a Bill of Ri
The use of large electronic corpora has revealed that the system of English predicate complementation has recently been undergoing major changes, these changes are referred to as the Great Complement
This book explores the grammar of to infinitives and gerundial -ing clauses, which is a central area at the interface of syntax and semantics, against the background of what has been called the Great
Provides a pioneering and data-oriented investigation of the syntax and semantics of important prepositional complementation patterns dependent on the prepositions in, to, at, on, with, and of in pres
Examines a number of patterns of several common prepositions followed by a -ing clause, such as He is opposed to changing the agreement and I determined on forgetting my unworthy lover. Draws on a num
This book showcases fresh research into the underexplored territory of complementation through a detailed analysis of gerunds and ‘to’ infinitives involving control in English. Drawing on large electr
Investigates the system of English predicate complementation over the last three centuries. Chapters shed light on central parts of the system, involving matrix nouns, adjectives, and verbs that selec
Utilizing data from the Bank of English Corpus--an electronic corpus of some 600 million works--Rudanko (English, U. of Tampere, Finland) and Luodes (German, U. of Tampere, Finland) examine a number o
In recent years the increasing availability of large electronic corpora has led to a methodological shift in linguistics from intuition-based research to work that utilises electronic corpora as a sou
