Infinitival vs gerundial complementation with afraid, accustomed, and prone : multivariate corpus studies /: multivariate corpus studies. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Juho Ruohonen, Juhani Rudanko.
• Authors: Ruohonen, Juho; Rudanko, Martti Juhani
• Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Statistics and Complement Selection: A Case Study of Afraid Based on Canadian and British English.- Chapter 3: Non-Finite Complements of Fear Adjectives Nested Within Too Complement Constructions in Present-Day English.- Chapter 4: Semantics, Syntax and Horror Aequi as Predictors of Non-Finite Alternation: A Multivariate Analysis of Clausal Complements of Afraid in the Now Corpus.- Chapter 5: Factors Bearing on Non-Finite Complement Selection: A Case Study of Accustomed with Data from Hansard.- Chapter 6: Factors Bearing on Infinitival and Gerundial Complements of the Adjective Prone in Current American and British English.- Chapter 7: Conclusion.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 425.5; English language -- Adjectivals
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030567583
• Related ISBNs: 9783030567576
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