Statistics and Complement Selection: A Case Study of Afraid Based on Canadian and British English
A number of variables have recently been shown to play a role in the non-finite complementation of complement-taking predicates in Present-Day English. This chapter opens with an overview of such variables, then proceeds to analyze the magnitude of their
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Infinitival vs Gerundial Complementation with Afraid, Accustomed, and Prone
Juho Ruohonen · Juhani Rudanko
Infinitival vs Gerundial Complementation with Afraid, Accustomed, and Prone Multivariate Corpus Studies
Juho Ruohonen University of Helsinki Helsinki, Finland
Juhani Rudanko Tampere University Tampere, Finland
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Acknowledgments
This book has benefitted from informant judgments provided by John Calton, Joseph Flanagan, and Mark Shackleton. Particular thanks go to Laura Herrmann, who was generous in lending us her native ear on numerous occasions. We also wish to thank the anonymous reviewers and the people at Palgrave for their cooperation in what has been a smooth and straightforward review process. Finally, the authors acknowledge their indebtedness to Mark Davies, of Brigham Young University, for his work in compiling most of the large corpora used in this book and for making a range of corpora easily available to those engaged in the scholarly study of English. The responsibility for any shortcomings in the book naturally remains with the authors.
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Contents
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Introduction References
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Statistics and Complement Selection: A Case Study of Afraid Based on Canadian and British English 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Composition of the Strathy Corpus 2.3 Complementation of Afraid in the Strathy Corpus 2.3.1 Descriptive Statistics 2.3.2 The Limitations of Univariat
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