Change and Continuity in the English Language - Studies on Complementation Over the Past Three Hundred Years

While earlier treatments of English verb syntax from a diachronic perspective exist, this book breaks entirely fresh ground with its focus on the detailed study of English predicate complementation over the past three centuries. It draws data from an unprecedented combination of authoritative sources, including computer corpora and H. Poutsma's unpublished dictionary, and offers novel systematizations of predicates and discussions of alternation. By giving ample evidence of both change and continuity in the language over the past three hundred years, the book opens up a new research field in the study of the English language.

About the author

Juhani Rudanko is Associate Professor of English Philology at the University of Tampere, Finland.

Product details

• Authors: Juhani Rudanko, Martti Juhani Rudanko, Rudanko Juhani
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.06.1998
• EAN: 9780761810391
• ISBN: 978-0-7618-1039-1
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 236 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 449 g
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Literature & literary studies, Biography, Literature and Literary studies