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Changes in Complementation in British and American English
Rudanko, Juhani. Ed(S): Jones, Charles
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Description for Changes in Complementation in British and American English
Paperback. "Arguing that a corpus-based approach is indispensable for the study of changes of complementation in British and American English, the author examines several central patterns of sentential complementation in a number of electronic corpora to shed light on the emergence and spread of innovative constructions in relatively recent English"-- Editor(s): Jones, Charles. Series: Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; CFF; CFK; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
217
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349359097
SKU
V9781349359097
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99-15
About Rudanko, Juhani. Ed(S): Jones, Charles
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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