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...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
2011.
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| Collection: | Studies in corpus linguistics ;
v. 42. |
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.


