Complementation in British and American English

Corpus-Based Studies on Prepositions and Complement Clauses

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

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Beskrivning

Complementation in British and American English applies a new empirical methodology to the study of the English language. It focuses on predicate complementation as a core area of English grammar on the basis of the Bank of English Corpus. At over 600 million words, this electronic corpus is the largest systematic corpus of the language in existence today. It offers a unique database of authentic usage for the study of the system of predicate complementation in British and American English. The authors make full use of this database, paying special attention to the language of newspapers and the spoken language in the two main regional varieties of English. The book illustrates a new and methodologically exciting direction in the study of the English language in the twenty-first century.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2005-11-15
Mått:191 x 224 x 12 mm
Vikt:213 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:140
Förlag:University Press of America
ISBN:9780761832928

Utforska kategorier

Språkvetenskap och lingvistik inom Språk och ordböcker

Mer om författaren

Juhani Rudanko is Professor of English in the Department of English at the University of Tampere, Finland. His earlier publications include Prepositions and Complement Clauses (1996) and Corpora and Complementation (University Press of America, 2000).Lea Luodes is a graduate of the University of Tampere, Finland, where she is currently an assistant in the Department of German. Her field of specialization is the use of electronic corpora in the study of language.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1 PrefaceChapter 2 IntroductionChapter 3 The Power of a Pattern: A Case Study of Linguistic InnovativenessChapter 4 Transitive Verbs Selecting out of -ing ComplementsChapter 5 Intransitive Verbs Selecting on -ing ComplementsChapter 6 Adjectives Selecting to Infinitive and to -ing ComplementsChapter 7 Intransitive Verbs Selecting to Infinitive and to -ing ComplementsChapter 8 Nouns Selecting to Infinitive and to -ing ComplementsChapter 9 Intransitive Verbs Selecting towards/toward -ing Chapter 10 Concluding Observations