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

J. Rudanko

Changes in Complementation in British and American English: Corpus-Based Studies on Non-Finite Complements in Recent English
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Country
United Kingdom
Published
1 January 2011
Pages
208
ISBN
9781349359097

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

J. Rudanko

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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.

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