Linking form and meaning : studies on selected control patterns in recent English /: studies on selected control patterns in recent English. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Juhani Rudanko.
• Authors: Rudanko, Martti Juhani
• Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Tracking a Change over Five Decades: to Infinitive and to -ing Complements of Accustomed in American Fiction from the 1910s to the 1950s 3. A New Angle on Infinitival and of -ing Complements of Afraid, with Evidence from the TIME Corpus 4. Additional Data on Non-Finite Complements of Afraid 5. On the Semantics of Object Control in English, with Evidence from the Corpus of Contemporary American English 6. The Transitive into -ing Pattern as a Caused Motion Construction: the Case of Force 7. Exploring the Creative Potential of the Transitive into -ing Pattern 8. On a Class of Exceptions to Bach's Generalization 9. Concluding Observations.
• Edition: 2015
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 425; English language -- Complement; English language -- Complement -- Case studies; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Complement; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Complement -- Case studies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137509505; 9781137509499
• Related ISBNs: 9781137509482
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