Author: Hildebrando Ruiz-Morales
Publisher:
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Category : Spanish language
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Author: Carlos Subirats-Rüggeberg
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027278954
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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The aim of the present work is to study the main distributional and transformational properties of verbs with a non-prepositional sentential complement in the two-argument sentence in Spanish.

Author: Juhani Rudanko
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319463136
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 94

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This book explores the grammar of to infinitives and gerundial -ing clauses, which is a central area at the interface of syntax and semantics, against the background of what has been called the Great Complement Shift. Over the course of six chapters, the author explores the semantic properties of constructions where the general spread of gerundial -ing clauses occurs at the expense of to infinitives. The author draws on large electronic corpora, ensuring that new perspectives are opened on the basis of authentic corpus evidence. He identifies trends of variation and change in the use of the two constructions and proposes The Choice Principle, an innovative perspective on the semantics of to infinitives and gerundial -ing complements. This book will be of interest to researchers and students working on English grammar or the recent history of English grammar.

Author: Martti Juhani Rudanko
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780761822745
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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This brief study applies the notion of a "construction" to preposition complementation patterns in English, and argues that Goldberg's formulation offers a helpful conceptual tool for analyzing prepositional patterns. Particular attention is given to alternative object control structures and the changes transitive verbs and intransitive verbs have undergone over time. Rudanko's credentials are not noted. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author: Johan Rooryck
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113466091X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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The investigation of sentential complementation focuses on properties of sentences that are embedded in other sentences. This book brings together a variety of studies on this topic in the framework of generative grammar. The first part of the book focuses on infinitival complements. The author provides new perspectives on raising and control, longstanding problems in infinitival complementation. He then examines the problem of clitic ordering in infinitives in Romance languages. The second part of the book addresses various aspects of Wh- sentences: extraction from negative and factive islands, agreement in relative clauses, and the relation between French relative and interrogative qui and que.

Author: Carlos Subirats Rüggeberg
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Catherine Kardahaki
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Author: J. Rudanko
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230305199
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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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.

Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9042028017
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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This volume provides an overview of four currently booming areas in the discipline of corpus linguistics. The first section is concerned with studies of the history and development of morphological and syntactic phenomena in English, Spanish, and Mandarin Chinese. The second section contains case studies investigating the functions and contexts of use of different morphological and syntactic forms in English, Spanish, Russian, and Mandarin Chinese. The third section contains studies in the field of genre and register from settings as diverse as health, call center, academic, and legal discourse. The final section features papers refining existing, and exploring new, corpus-linguistic methods: dispersions, text mining, corpus similarity, as well as the development of extraction patterns and the evaluation of tagging methods.

Author: Mark Kaunisto
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030190447
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 145

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This book sheds new light on the nature of gerunds in English, utilizing data from very large electronic corpora in order to compare pairs of patterns viewed as constructions. It serves as a contribution to the study of complementation, an under-researched area of investigation which bridges observations at the intersection of lexico-grammar, syntax and semantics. As a result, the reader develops their understanding of the meaning and use of each pattern within the system of English predicate complementation as it has evolved in recent times. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of English linguistics, especially English grammar.