[edited by] Mark Kaunisto, Mikko Hoglund, Paul Rickman.
Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2018]
1 online resource.
Studies in language companion ;
v. 195
"His volume is the product of a symposium that was held at the University of Tampere in October 2015. The theme of that one-day event was complementation, and it was held in honour of Professor Juhani Rudanko, who, at the time, was retiring from his post at the University."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Changing structures
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Computational linguistics.
Construction grammar.
Grammar, Comparative and general-- Complement.
Linguistic change.
Semantics, Comparative.
Structural linguistics, Data processing.
Computational linguistics.
Construction grammar.
Grammar, Comparative and general-- Complement.
Grammar, Comparative and general-- Verb phrase.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Linguistics-- Syntax.