Linking Form and Meaning
This book documents changes and trends in English predicate complementation. In-depth case studies of grammatical patterns presented here uncover new links between form and meaning in these constructions, offering fresh insights into explanatory principles to account for variation and change in the system of English predicate complementation.
| Autor: | Rudanko, J. |
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| ISBN: | 9781137509482 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 110 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Veröffentlicht: | 06.02.2015 |
| Untertitel: | Studies on Selected Control Patterns in Recent English |
| Schlagworte: | Tempora complements infinitive literary diction object semantic semantics |
Juhani Rudanko is Professor of English at the University of Tampere, Finland. His recent work has focused on the system of English predicate complementation in recent centuries and on the pragmatic analysis of political discourse in the early American Republic.