Changes in Complementation in British and American English

Corpus-Based Studies on Non-Finite Complements in Recent English

By: Juhani Rudanko

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Hardcover | 15 May 2011 | Edition Number 1

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This book is for teachers and students of English, native and non-native, and all those who take an interest in change and variation in the language. The core grammar of the language has been undergoing major changes in recent times, sometimes summed up under the label of the Great Complement Shift, and this book provides fresh perspectives on major aspects of the Shift.

The author documents changes and innovative trends in recent English grammar, taking both British and American English into account, drawing on a unique combination of large electronic corpora, including the Bank of English Corpus, the Old Bailey Corpus, the Corpus of English Novels, the TIME Corpus, and the British National Corpus. He adopts the method of in-depth case studies of core patterns in the language, with a focus on infinitive and -ing clauses, and the analysis of the patterns as constructions, combining a form with a meaning, provides fresh insights into the explanatory principles to account for change and variation in recent British and American English.

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List of Tables	p. vi
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
On a Class of Resultatives in Recent English	p. 10
Innovative Resultatives in British and American English	p. 41
Emergent Alternation in Complement Selection: The Spread of the Transitive into -ing Construction to Verbs of Unflavored Causation	p. 67
Tracking and Explaining the Transitive out of-ing Pattern in Recent and Current English	p. 85
Watching English Grammar Change: Variation and Change in the Grammar of Accustomed	p. 100
On Sentential Complements of Object, with Evidence from the Old Bailey Corpus	p. 155
Complements of Commit: Variation in the Grammar of an Innovative Verb	p. 172
Concluding Observations	p. 190
Notes	p. 198
References	p. 203
Index	p. 207
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