Overview
- Investigates the properties of a selected set of complementation patterns in recent English
- Proposes a new principle, termed the Choice Principle which is found to be statistically significant in predicting the selection of the type of complement
- Systematically analyses large electronic corpora to identify patterns of variation
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Book Title: Infinitives and Gerunds in Recent English
Book Subtitle: Studies on Non-Finite Complements with Data from Large Corpora
Authors: Juhani Rudanko
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46313-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-46312-4Published: 10 November 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83488-7Published: 28 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-46313-1Published: 31 October 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 88
Topics: English, Corpus Linguistics, Grammar, Syntax, Semantics