Download or read book Semantic and Pragmatic Indeterminacy in English Non finite Verb Complementation written by Eberhard Klein and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Semantic and progmatic Indeterminacy in English non finite verb complementation written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Free Adjuncts and Absolutes in English written by Bernd Kortmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-27 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not dominated by one theory - original approach Good high profile area considered: semantic-pragmatic interface Part of the move to corpus-based studies in linguistics Great source book for scholars of English Grammar
Download or read book Changes in Complementation in British and American English written by J. Rudanko and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Corpus Based Studies on Non Finite Complements in Recent English written by Paul Rickman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book showcases fresh research into the underexplored territory of complementation through a detailed analysis of gerunds and ‘to’ infinitives involving control in English. Drawing on large electronic corpora of recent English, it examines subject control in adjectival predicate constructions with ‘scared’, ‘terrified’ and ‘afraid’, moving on to a study of object control with the verbal predicate ‘warn’. In each chapter a case study is presented of a matrix adjective that selects both infinitival and gerundial complements, and a central theme is the application of the Choice Principle as a novel factor bearing on complement selection. The authors argue that it is helpful to view the patterns in question as constructions, as combinations of form and meaning, within the system of English predicate complementation, and convincingly demonstrate how a new gerundial pattern has emerged and spread in the course of the last two centuries. This book will appeal to scholars of semantics, corpus linguistics, and historical linguistics as well as those with an interest in variation and change in recent English more generally.
Download or read book An Analysis of the Semantic Field of the German Particles berhaupt and eigentlich written by Theo Harden and published by Gunter Narr Verlag. This book was released on 1983 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Atemporal Complement Clauses in English written by Zeki Hamawand and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Verbgoverned Infinitival Complementatihb written by Sofía Bemposta-Rivas and published by Linguistic Insights. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this monograph is to contribute to the existing literature by modelling the variation in relation to a selection of verbs that govern to- and bare-infinite complements in the recent history of American and British English.
Download or read book Variation in Non finite Constructions in English written by Mark Kaunisto and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-05-29 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Non finite Complementation written by Thomas Egan and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a comprehensive guide to the way speakers of British English use infinitive and -"-ing" clauses as verbal complements. It contains details of the non-finite complementation patterns of over 300 matrix verbs, with a particular emphasis on verbs that occur with more than one type of non-finite complement. Drawing upon data from the British National Corpus, the author shows that some of the views which are to be found in the existing literature on these sorts of clauses are in conflict with the evidence of actual usage. He also shows that there is actually much more regularity in this area than has often been taken to be the case. Moreover, this regularity is shown to be motivated by cognitive-functional factors. An appendix contains details of the relative frequency of all of the constructions dealt with in the study, together with an example of each of them. The book is of interest to language teachers as well as linguists, both theoretical and applied. Thomas Egan is a senior lecturer in English language at Hedmark University College.
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Download or read book Essays on the English Language and Applied Linguistics on the Occasion of Gerhard Nickel s 60th Birthday written by Josef Klegraf and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Verb governed Infinitival Complementation in the Recent History of English written by Sofia Bemposta-Rivas and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This monograph deals with morphological, syntactic, semantic/pragmatic, discursive and textual variation between to- and bare-infinite (BI) verbal complementation in English. It investigates the reasons that lead certain verbs (specifically, dare, need and help) to opt for one solution or the other in the recent history of English. Non-finite complementation is a highly productive area of research (see Fanego 1996, 1998, 2004; Mair 2003: 329; Taeymans 2004 a, b, 2006; Schlüter 2005; Cuyckens and De Smet 2007; Loureiro-Porto 2009, 2010; Lohmann 2011; van der Auwera and Diewald 2012: 131; Levshina 2018). While there are numerous studies examining to-infinitive vs BI complementation from a syntactic, semantic or cognitive perspective (see Section 1.2), this volume is an attempt to provide a comprehensive analytic analysis of the possible grammatical, structural, semantic/pragmatic, processing, genre, period and identity-avoidance factors affecting to-infinitive/BI complement alternation"--
Download or read book A Semantic and Pragmatic Examination of the English Perfect written by Peter Fenn and published by Gunter Narr Verlag. This book was released on 1987 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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