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Adjective complementation : an empirical analysis of adjectives followed by that-clauses /

This is the first empirical study to focus on adjectives complemented by that-clauses. The in-depth analysis of more than 50,000 cases taken from the British National Corpus gives comprehensive insights into hitherto neglected relations of lexis and grammar. The result of this corpus-driven study is...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mindt, Ilka
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011.
Colección:Studies in corpus linguistics ; v. 42.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Adjective Complementation; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Chapter 1. Corpus linguistics, adjectives and that-clauses; Chapter 2. Linguistic analysis of adjectives + that-clauses; Chapter 3. Subjects in the matrix clause and the that-clause and their relation to adjectives; Chapter 4. Verb-adjective combinations; Chapter 5. Objects in the matrix clause; Chapter 6. Adverbs preceding adjectives; Chapter 7. That versus zero that; Chapter 8. The verb phrase in the that-clause; Chapter 9. Making the implicit explicit; References; Appendix. Lee's genre categorization; Index.