Complements and Constructions
Title | Complements and Constructions PDF eBook |
Author | Martti Juhani Rudanko |
Publisher | University Press of America |
Pages | 140 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780761822745 |
This brief study applies the notion of a "construction" to preposition complementation patterns in English, and argues that Goldberg's formulation offers a helpful conceptual tool for analyzing prepositional patterns. Particular attention is given to alternative object control structures and the changes transitive verbs and intransitive verbs have undergone over time. Rudanko's credentials are not noted. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Infinitival complement constructions in Early New High German
Title | Infinitival complement constructions in Early New High German PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Peter Ebert |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 201 |
Release | 2012-01-02 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3111355837 |
Over the past few decades, the book series Linguistische Arbeiten [Linguistic Studies], comprising over 500 volumes, has made a significant contribution to the development of linguistic theory both in Germany and internationally. The series will continue to deliver new impulses for research and maintain the central insight of linguistics that progress can only be made in acquiring new knowledge about human languages both synchronically and diachronically by closely combining empirical and theoretical analyses. To this end, we invite submission of high-quality linguistic studies from all the central areas of general linguistics and the linguistics of individual languages which address topical questions, discuss new data and advance the development of linguistic theory.
Non-finite Complementation
Title | Non-finite Complementation PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Egan |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 444 |
Release | 2015-06-29 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 940120554X |
This book presents a comprehensive guide to the way speakers of British English use infinitive and –ing clauses as verbal complements. It contains details of the non-finite complementation patterns of over 300 matrix verbs, with a particular emphasis on verbs that occur with more than one type of non-finite complement. Drawing upon data from the British National Corpus, the author shows that some of the views which are to be found in the existing literature on these sorts of clauses are in conflict with the evidence of actual usage. He also shows that there is actually much more regularity in this area than has often been taken to be the case. Moreover, this regularity is shown to be motivated by cognitive-functional factors. An appendix contains details of the relative frequency of all of the constructions dealt with in the study, together with an example of each of them. The book is of interest to language teachers as well as linguists, both theoretical and applied.
Prepositional Complementary Clauses in Spanish
Title | Prepositional Complementary Clauses in Spanish PDF eBook |
Author | Frederick Courtney Tarr |
Publisher | |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 1922 |
Genre | Spanish language |
ISBN |
“The” Grammar of English Predicate Complement Constructions
Title | “The” Grammar of English Predicate Complement Constructions PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Steven Rosenbaum |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | |
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Radical Construction Grammar
Title | Radical Construction Grammar PDF eBook |
Author | William Croft |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 2001-10-25 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0191544795 |
This book is based on the results of research in language typology, and motivated by the need for a theory to explain them. The essence of the approach is (a) that almost all aspects of grammatical structure are language specific, and (b) that language universals are to be found in conceptual structure and in the mapping of conceptual structure on to linguistic form. It proposes intimate links between syntactic and semantic structures, and argues that the basic elements of any language are not syntactic but syntactic-semantic 'Gestalts'. Professor Croft puts forward a new approach to syntactic representation and a new model of how language and languages work. He covers a wide range of syntactic phenomena, illustrating these with examples that show the varied grammatical structures of the world's languages. The book will be accessible all linguists at graduate level and beyond.
The Grammar of English Predicate Complement Constructions
Title | The Grammar of English Predicate Complement Constructions PDF eBook |
Author | Peter S. Rosenbaum |
Publisher | MIT Press (MA) |
Pages | 152 |
Release | 1967 |
Genre | English language |
ISBN |