EAN: 9783319729886

CORPUS-BASED STUDIES ON NON-FINITE COMPLEMENTS ...

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.

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