Changing structures : studies in constructions and complementation /
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , , , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2018]
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Colección: | Studies in language companion series ;
v. 195. |
Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Changing Structures
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Structures, patterns, constructions
- studying variation and change in lexico-grammar
- References
- Talk into vs convince to
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Refining the observation of the empirical data
- 3. Explanations anyone?
- 4. Construction grammar, embodied cognition and the basic design architecture of human language
- References
- Passive permissives
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Constructions with active matrix verbs
- 3. Constructions with passive matrix verbs
- 4. Passive let in COCA
- 5. Passive let in COHA
- 6. Summary and conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Primary sources
- Secondary sources
- Goldberg's Rely On construction
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Goldberg's Rely On construction
- 3. Preliminaries for an alternative solution
- 4. Improved solution
- 5. Concluding remarks
- References
- Aspects of the use of the transitive into -ing pattern in New Zealand English
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Background and earlier research
- 3. Data and methods
- 4. Results
- 4.1 Type and token frequencies of the transitive into -ing pattern in the CNZNE
- 4.2 Innovative usages
- 5. Summary and conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Complementation of ashamed
- diachrony and determinants of variation
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Background
- 3. Materials and method
- 4. Findings
- 4.1 Development of ashamed and its complements in COHA
- 4.2 Choice between to infinitive and of -ing complement
- 5. Summary and conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Primary sources
- Secondary sources
- Sentential complementation of propose in recent British English
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Propose in the literature
- 2.1 Propose in dictionaries
- 2.2 Propose in grammars
- 2.3 Control theory and propose.
- 3. Data and methods
- 4. Findings and discussion
- 4.1 Sentential complementation of propose
- 4.1.1 Overview
- 4.1.2 To-infinitive patterns
- 4.1.3 -ing clause patterns
- 4.1.4 That-clause patterns
- 4.1.5 Other patterns
- 4.2 Control
- 5. Conclusions
- Acknowledgements
- References
- The use of optional complement markers in present-day English
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The complementizer that
- 2.1 Verb-dependent complement clauses
- 2.2 Noun-dependent complement clauses
- 3. Infinitive marking
- 4. Modal should in mandative complements
- 5. The variable use of from introducing gerundial complements
- 5.1 Negative verbs of causation like put off
- 5.2 The particle verb hold off
- 6. Interrogative complement clauses
- 7. Conclusion
- References
- Primary sources
- Secondary sources
- Patterns of direct transitivization and differences between British and American English
- 1. Introduction: Direct transitivization
- 2. Lexicographic treatment of the different complementation patterns
- 2.1 Graduate
- 2.2 Impact
- 2.3 Shop
- 3. Data and methodology
- 4. Results
- 4.1 Graduate
- 4.2 Impact
- 4.3 Shop
- 5. Discussion and conclusion
- References
- I would like to request for your attention
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Background
- 2.1 Singapore English
- 2.2 Singapore standard English?
- 2.2 Prepositional verbs
- 3. Data
- 4. Retrieving prepositional verbs
- 5. Results
- 5.1 The prepositional verbs to enter into and to await for
- 5.2 The prepositional verb to request for
- 5.3 The prepositional verb to leverage on
- 6. Prepositional verbs in new Englishes
- 7. Concluding remarks and outlook
- Acknowledgements
- References
- The development of infinitival complementation with or without language contact
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Cross-linguistic variation in interclausal symmetry.
- 3. The historical English analogy with Sri Lankan Malay
- 4. The view that restoration of infinitival marking is improbable
- 5. The development of infinitival complementation in Sri Lankan Malay
- 6. Conclusion
- Abbreviations
- References
- Anglicising Finnish complementation? Examining the rakastan puhua ('I love to speak') structure in present-day Finnish
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Language and fashion
- 3. Language change: An ideological note
- 4. Speaker-alignment as recipient design: Domestication and foreignisation generalised
- 5. Final remarks: Language variation and language change diffusion
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Author index
- Subject index.