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Changes in Complementation in British and American English

Corpus-Based Studies on Non-Finite Complements in Recent English

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  • © 2011

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  1. Juhani Rudanko

    1. University of Tampere, Finland

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Juhani Rudanko
    Pages 1-9

  3. On a Class of Resultatives in Recent English

    • Juhani Rudanko
    Pages 10-40

  4. Innovative Resultatives in British and American English

    • Juhani Rudanko
    Pages 41-66

  5. Emergent Alternation in Complement Selection: The Spread of the Transitive into -ing Construction to Verbs of Unflavored Causation

    • Juhani Rudanko
    Pages 67-84

  6. Tracking and Explaining the Transitive out of -ing Pattern in Recent and Current English

    • Juhani Rudanko
    Pages 85-99

  7. Watching English Grammar Change: Variation and Change in the Grammar of Accustomed

    • Juhani Rudanko
    Pages 100-154

  8. On Sentential Complements of Object, with Evidence from the Old Bailey Corpus

    • Juhani Rudanko
    Pages 155-171

  9. Complements of Commit: Variation in the Grammar of an Innovative Verb

    • Juhani Rudanko
    Pages 172-189

  10. Concluding Observations

    • Juhani Rudanko
    Pages 190-197

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 198-208
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The book shows how the system of English predicate complementation has been undergoing an amazing amount of variation and change in recent centuries, and identifies explanatory principles to account for this change and variation, with evidence from large electronic corpora of both British and American English.

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  • University of Tampere, Finland

    Juhani Rudanko

About the author

JUHANI RUDANKO Professor of English at the University of Tampere, Finland. His recent work has focused on the system of English predicate complementation in recent centuries, and on the pragmatic analysis of political discourse in the early American Republic.

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