Titlebook: Changes in Complementation in British and American English; Corpus-Based Studies Juhani Rudanko Book 2011 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of

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Tracking and Explaining the Transitive , Pattern in Recent and Current English,Consider sentence (1):.Sentence (1) illustrates a pattern of verb complementation: the matrix verb . selects three arguments, a subject NP, realized by ., a direct object NP, realized by ., and a prepositional phrase, realized by . The latter two constituents are the complements of . in the sentence.

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Watching English Grammar Change: Variation and Change in the Grammar of ,There are a number of central structural types of sentential complements in English. They include . infinitive and what may be called . complements. These are initially illustrated by (1) and (2), respectively (from the Bank of English Corpus)..Both . infinitive and . complements may be selected by adjectival heads, as is shown by (1–2).

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Introduction,ducted within English linguistics, with an exclusive focus on the grammar of English, and some of it has been conducted in a broader context of general linguistics. Much of the work in both tradi-tions of research has been based on the methodological perspective of introspection. For several decades

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Transgenic Arthropod Resistance,, the predominance of this perspective, especially in the United States of America, has been influenced to a significant degree by the emphasis that Noam Chomsky has placed on it as the main, or indeed as the sole, source of data for linguistic analysis.

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2637-6814 enturies, and identifies explanatory principles to account for this change and variation, with evidence from large electronic corpora of both British and American English.978-1-349-35909-7978-0-230-30519-9Series ISSN 2637-6814 Series E-ISSN 2634-5234

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Inheritance of Arthropod Resistance,. This section sets the scene by drawing attention to the grammar of these types of complement. The discussion here is parallel to that at the beginning of Chapter 6, but it deserves to be pointed out that the distinction between the two types of sentential complement can be established not only with adjectival heads but also with verbal heads.