Adjective Complementation : An empirical analysis of adjectives followed by <i>that</i>-clauses PDF
by Mindt Ilka Mindt
Part of the Studies in Corpus Linguistics series
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This is the first empirical study to focus on adjectives complemented by that-clauses. The in-depth analysis of more than 50,000 cases taken from the British National Corpus gives comprehensive insights into hitherto neglected relations of lexis and grammar. The result of this corpus-driven study is a novel classification of adjectives based on co-occurrence patterns and corroborated with the help of statistical means. The inductive analysis of corpus data offers new perspectives on and innovative descriptions of well-known phenomena of English grammar, such as extraposition or the resultative construction so...that. It is based on a new methodological approach, which looks at mutual relations of both lexis and grammar in unprecedented ways.
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:248 pages
- Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Publication Date:12/05/2011
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- ISBN:9789027287267
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:248 pages
- Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Publication Date:12/05/2011
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- ISBN:9789027287267
