Spreading Patterns

Name: Spreading Patterns
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Diffusional Change in the English System of Complementation

Autor: Hendrik De Smet

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Spreading Change: Diffusional Change in the English System of Complementation examines the emergence...

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Autor

Hendrik De Smet

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2013

Pagini

304

EAN

9780199812752

ISBN

0199812756

Enbook ID

04536152

Editura

Oxford University Press Inc

Greutate

536

Dimensiuni

164 x 242 x 25

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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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