Perspectives on Complementation

Introduction; Mikko Hoglund PART I: STRUCTURE 1. Constructions License Verb Frames; Laura A. Michaelis 2. Inside Out: Productive German Prepositional Objects as an Example of Complements Selecting Heads; Jouni Rostila 3. A Cross-Linguistic Perspective on Complementation in the Tough Construction; Jukka Havu and Mikko Hoglund PART II: VARIATION 4. Variability in Clausal Verb Complementation: The Case of Admit; Hubert Cuyckens and Frauke D'hoedt 5. The Embedded Negation Constraint and the Choice between More or Less Explicit Clausal Structures in English; Gunter Rohdenburg 6. 'Wheedled Me into Lending Him My Best Hunter': Comparing the Emergence of the Transitive into -ing Construction in British and American English; Juhani Rudanko 7. Prepositions and Sentential Complements: The Case of Waste and Spend; Paul Rickman 8. From Doubt to Supposition: The Construction-Specific Meaning Change of the Finnish Verb Epailla; Jutta Salminen PART III: BOUNDARIES 9. Multiple Sources in Language Change: The Role of Free Adjuncts and Absolutes in the Formation of English ACC-ing Gerundives; Teresa Fanego 10. The Relation between Hypotactic Integration and Complementation in Cognitive Grammar; Cristiano Broccias 11. Control in Free Adjuncts in English and French: A Corpus-Based Semantico-Pragmatic Account; Patrick J. Duffley and Samuel Dion-Girardeau