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Linking Form and Meaning

Studies on Selected Control Patterns in Recent English

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  • © 2015

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  1. Juhani Rudanko

    1. University of Tampere, Finland

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Juhani Rudanko
    Pages 1-10

  3. Tracking a Change over Five Decades: to Infinitive and to -ing Complements of Accustomed in American Fiction from the 1910s to the 1950s

    • Juhani Rudanko
    Pages 11-26

  4. A New Angle on Infinitival and of -ing Complements of Afraid, with Evidence from the TIME Corpus

    • Juhani Rudanko
    Pages 27-40

  5. Additional Data on Nonfinite Complements of Afraid

    • Juhani Rudanko
    Pages 41-48

  6. On the Semantics of Object Control in English, with Evidence from the Corpus of Contemporary American English

    • Juhani Rudanko
    Pages 49-62

  7. The Transitive into -ing Pattern as a Caused Motion Construction: The Case of Force

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    Pages 63-78

  8. Exploring the Creative Potential of the Transitive into -ing Pattern

    • Juhani Rudanko
    Pages 79-88

  9. On a Class of Exceptions to Bach’s Generalization

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    Pages 89-97

  10. Concluding Observations

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    Pages 98-103

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 104-110
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Tampere, Finland

    Juhani Rudanko

About the author

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Linking Form and Meaning

  • Book Subtitle: Studies on Selected Control Patterns in Recent English

  • Authors: Juhani Rudanko

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137509499

  • Publisher: Palgrave Pivot London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-50948-2Published: 06 February 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-50949-9Published: 02 February 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 110

  • Topics: Language and Literature, Grammar, Semantics

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