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Changes in Complementation in British and American English: Corpus-Based Studies on Non-Finite Complements in Recent English

Changes in Complementation in British and American English: Corpus-Based Studies on Non-Finite Complements in Recent English

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Series: Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change

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ISBN10: 1349359092
ISBN13: 9781349359097
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Jan 1 2011
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.46 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The book shows how the system of English predicate complementation has been undergoing an amazing amount of variation and change in recent centuries, and identifies explanatory principles to account for this change and variation, with evidence from large electronic corpora of both British and American English.

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