Spreading Patterns: Diffusional Change in the English System of Complementation - Couverture rigide

De Smet, Hendrik

 
9780199812752: Spreading Patterns: Diffusional Change in the English System of Complementation
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0199812756 ISBN 13 : 9780199812752
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2013

Synopsis

Spreading Change: Diffusional Change in the English System of Complementation examines the emergence and spread of three types of complements from the Middle English period to the present day. The three types of complements are subject-controlled gerund complements (1), for...to-infinitives (2), and subject-controlled participial compelements (3).

(1) The cat loves being stroked, absolutely loves it!
(2) We couldn't afford for it to go wrong.
(3) The receptionist is busy filling a fifth box.

In the first half of the book De Smet addresses the theoretical issues by summarizing a number of major approaches to the study of complementation, and by focusing on how and why a particular change spreads (a process that he calls "diffusion"). In the second half, which is descriptive and largely corpus-based, De Smet tests these mechanisms on the three complement types. His work demonstrates: a) how diffusion interacts with the grammatical system of complementation; b) how diffusion proceeds, step-by-step; and c) why diffusion is directional.

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À propos de l'auteur

Henrik De Smet is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Linguistics at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press Inc
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0199812756
ISBN 13 
9780199812752
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
304
Coordonnées du fabricant
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