Variation in Non-finite Constructions in English

Mark Kaunisto is a Senior Lecturer at Tampere University, Finland. His work includes corpus-based studies on morphological rivalry, word-formation, neologisms, and usage guidebooks.Juhani Rudanko is Professor Emeritus at Tampere University, Finland. His latest work focuses on the evolution of predicate complementation in recent English and the application of linguistic pragmatics to the analysis of political debates in the early American Republic.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Variation between Sentential Complements: the Case of Work at -ing and Work on -ing.- Chapter 3: Semantic Roles and Complement Selection: a Case Study on the Matrix Adjective Frightened.- Chapter 4: Emergence of Covert Noun Phrase Objects: the Case of Advise against -ing.- Chapter 5: Exceptions to Bach’s Generalization in Inner and Outer Core Varieties of English: the Case of Warn against -ing.- Chapter 6: New Light on -Ing Complements of Prevent, with Recent Data from Large Corpora.- Chapter 7: Conclusion.