Variation in Non-finite Constructions in English Trends Affecting In
This book sheds new light on the nature of gerunds in English, utilizing data from very large electronic corpora in order to compare pairs of patterns viewed as constructions. It serves as a contribution to the study of complementation, an under-researche
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Mark Kaunisto Juhani Rudanko
Variation in Non-finite Constructions in English
Mark Kaunisto • Juhani Rudanko
Variation in Non-finite Constructions in English Trends Affecting Infinitives and Gerunds
Mark Kaunisto Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences Tampere University Tampere, Finland
Juhani Rudanko Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences Tampere University Tampere, Finland
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Acknowledgements
The authors wish to thank Palgrave Macmillan for accepting this book in the Palgrave Pivot series, and we are very grateful to Cathy Scott and Beth Farrow of Palgrave Macmillan for their much valued help during the process of completing the book. In this work we have included segments of two papers that were written by both authors: sections of Chap. 2 appeared in 2017 in Sebastian Hoffmann, Andrea Sand & Sabine Arndt-Lappe, eds., Exploring Recent Diachrony: Corpus Studies of Lexicogrammar and Language Practices in Late Modern English, Studies in Variation, Contacts and Change in English, Volume 18, Helsinki: eVarieng; http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/ series/volumes/18/kaunisto_rudanko. Similarly, sections of Chap. 5 were published in early 2019 in Carla Suhr, Terttu Nevalainen and Irma Taavitsainen, eds., From Data to Evidence in English Language Research, 109–130, Amsterdam: Brill. We are thankful to the two anonymous readers for their c
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