Author: Juhani Rudanko
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Keywords: complementation, day, english, suny, ling, series, present, selected, grammar, case, syntactic, semantic, study, patterns
Number of Pages: 173
Published: 1989-08
List price: $56.50
ISBN-10: 0887069312
ISBN-13: 9780887069314

Author: Juhani Rudanko
Publisher: University Press of America
Keywords: complementation, corpora
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2000-09-20
List price: $55.50
ISBN-10: 0761817948
ISBN-13: 9780761817949

Corpora and Complementation investigates the system of English predicate complementation over the last three centuries. The individual chapters shed light on central parts of the system, involving nouns, adjectives and verbs that select complement clauses. A focal point of the investigation is the "to -ing", as in "He resorted to borrowing money". Variation between this pattern and "to" infinitives is examined at length in the complements of different types of matrix predicates and it is argued that the "to -ing" pattern has been spreading in recent centuries. This analysis of English predicat

Author: Guy Deutscher
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: sentential, complementation, evolution, akkadian, change, syntactic
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2007-12-20
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0199532222
ISBN-13: 9780199532223

In this book Guy Deutscher examines the historical development of Akkadian, the oldest recorded Semitic language and one of the earliest attested languages. Two thousand years of texts from 2500BC to 500BC provide a unique source for the study of linguistic change.The first two parts of the book present an historical grammar of sentential complementation. Part one traces the emergence of new structures, describing how finite complements first developed, and tracing the grammaticalization of the quotative construction. Part two examines the language’s functional history. It looks at the e

Author: Juhani Rudanko
Publisher: University Press of America
Keywords: patterns, complementation, english, studies, diachronic
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 1999-06-03
List price: $54.00
ISBN-10: 0761814078
ISBN-13: 9780761814078

Diachronic Studies of English Complementation Patterns offers original analysis of change and continuity of predicates selecting central prepositions and complement clauses over the last three centuries using authentic data drawn from a unique combination of authoritative resources. Juhani Rudanko examines some of the most central prepositions in English; "to, in, at, on/upon, and with," in constructions using an " -ing" clause. He depicts the common constructions used with the prepositions, focusing on matrix adjectives, matrix verbs, and in the case of "to", the issue of alternation related

Authors:R. M. W. Dixon, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: sipri, publication, typoloy, linguistic, cross, complementation
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2006-08-24
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 0199297878
ISBN-13: 9780199297870

A complement clause is used instead of a noun phrase; for example one can say either I heard [the result] or I heard [that England beat France]. Languages lacking complement clauses employ complementation strategies to achieve similar semantic results. Detailed studies of particular languages, including Akkadian, Israeli, Jarawara, and Pennsylvania German, are framed by R.M. W. Dixon’s introduction, which sets out the range of issues, and his conclusion, which draws together the evidence and the arguments.

Author: Dany Jasper
Publisher: Foris Pubns USA
Keywords: geest, linguistic, models, wim, honour, complementation, lexicon, studies, sentential
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 1989-04-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9067654159
ISBN-13: 9789067654159

Author: Zeljko Boškovic
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: linguistic, inquiry, monographs, approach, economy, nonfinite, complementation, syntax
Number of Pages: 261
Published: 1997-10-31
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0262522365
ISBN-13: 9780262522366

Economy considerations have always played an important role in the generative theory of grammar. Indeed, the very development of the theory has been characterized by natural considerations of simplicity and economy. In the Minimalist Program, the operations of the computational system that produce linguistic expressions must satisfy general considerations of simplicity referred to as Economy Principles. In The Syntax of Nonfinite Complementation: An Economy Approach, the author completes two major research projects that solidify the foundation of the Minimalist Program: the elimination of c