Complements and Constructions - Corpus-Based Studies on Sentential Complements in English in Recent Centuries

Juhani Rudanko, in Complements and Constructions, offers a pioneering perspective on the grammar of important prepositional complementation patterns in English. Rudanko focuses on sentential complements dependent on the prepositions from and to and on transitive and intransitive verbs selecting such complements.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Alternate Object Control Structures: Into -ing vs. To Infinitive Complements Chapter 3 Into -ing as a Construction Chapter 4 From -ing over Three Centuries: Transitive Verbs Chapter 5 From -ing over Three Centuries: Intransitive Verbs Chapter 6 To -ing over Three Centuries: Intransitive Verbs Chapter 7 Horror Aequi in the Eighteenth Century Chapter 8 Concluding Observations Chapter 9 Bibliography Chapter 10 Index Chapter 11 Index of Verbs

About the author

By Juhani Rudanko

Product details

• Authors: Juhani Rudanko, Rudanko Juhani
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.05.2002
• EAN: 9780761822745
• ISBN: 978-0-7618-2274-5
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 218 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 186 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology