Adjective complementation : an empirical analysis of adjectives followed by that-clauses

Adjective complementation : an empirical analysis of adjectives followed by that-clauses / Ilka Mindt.

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...

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Main Author: Mindt, Ilka
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011.
Series:Studies in corpus linguistics ; v. 42.
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Adjective.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Clauses.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Adjective
Grammar, Comparative and general > Clauses
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (vii, 238 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-229) and index.
ISBN:9789027287267
9027287260
1283093170
9781283093170
9786613093172
6613093173
Language:English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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