Complementation in British And American English - Corpus based Studies on Prepositions And Complement Clauses in

Informationen zum Autor Juhani Rudanko, Lea Luodes Klappentext Complementation in British and American English applies a new empirical methodology to the study of the English language. It focuses on predicate complementation as a core area of English grammar on the basis of the Bank of English Corpus. At over 600 million words, this electronic corpus is the largest systematic corpus of the language in existence today. Zusammenfassung Containing over 600 million words! this book applies an empirical methodology to the study of the English language. It focuses on predicate complementation as a core area of English grammar on the basis of the Bank of English Corpus. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 The Power of a Pattern: A Case Study of Linguistic Innovativeness Chapter 4 Transitive Verbs Selecting out of -ing Complements Chapter 5 Intransitive Verbs Selecting on -ing Complements Chapter 6 Adjectives Selecting to Infinitive and to -ing Complements Chapter 7 Intransitive Verbs Selecting to Infinitive and to -ing Complements Chapter 8 Nouns Selecting to Infinitive and to -ing Complements Chapter 9 Intransitive Verbs Selecting towards/toward -ing Chapter 10 Concluding Observations

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Juhani Rudanko, Lea Luodes

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• Autori: Lea Luodes, Luodes Lea, Juhani Rudanko, Martti Juhani/ Luodes Rudanko, Rudanko Juhani
• Editore: Rowman and Littlefield
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.12.2005
• EAN: 9780761832928
• ISBN: 978-0-7618-3292-8
• Pagine: 132
• Dimensioni: 146 mm x 216 mm x 13 mm
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Altre lingue / altre letterature; Linguistics, English, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General