Infinitival vs Gerundial Complementation with Afraid, Accustomed, and Prone

Multivariate Corpus Studies

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

The book thus presents a methodologically new perspective on the study of the system of non-finite complementation in recent English and variation within that system, and will be relevant to academics and students with an interest in English grammar, predicate complementation, and statistical approaches to language.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-11-26
Mått:148 x 210 x 15 mm
Vikt:348 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:161
Upplaga:20001
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030567576

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Juho Ruohonen is a postgraduate student of English Philology at the University of Helsinki, Finland.Juhani Rudanko is Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences at Tampere University, Finland.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Statistics and Complement Selection: A Case Study of Afraid Based on Canadian and British English.- Chapter 3: Non-Finite Complements of Fear Adjectives Nested Within Too Complement Constructions in Present-Day English.- Chapter 4: Semantics, Syntax and Horror Aequi as Predictors of Non-Finite Alternation: A Multivariate Analysis of Clausal Complements of Afraid in the Now Corpus.- Chapter 5: Factors Bearing on Non-Finite Complement Selection: A Case Study of Accustomed with Data from Hansard.- Chapter 6: Factors Bearing on Infinitival and Gerundial Complements of the Adjective Prone in Current American and British English.- Chapter 7: Conclusion.