Changes in Complementation in British and American English [electronic resource] : Corpus-Based Studies on Non-Finite Complements in Recent English / by J. Rudanko.

Rudanko, J.
Changes in Complementation in British and American English
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9780230305199
Yer Numarası
EK/165
Yazar
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2011.
Yayın Bilgisi
London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Fiziksel Niteleme
IX, 208 p. online resource.
Dizi
Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change, 2634-5234
Özet, vb.
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.
Konu
Historical linguistics.
Sociolinguistics.
Linguistics.
Language and languages __ Style.
Historical Linguistics.
Sociolinguistics.
Theoretical Linguistics / Grammar.
Stylistics.