Adjective complementation : an empirical analysis of adjectives followed by that-clauses
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Adjective complementation : an empirical analysis of adjectives followed by that-clauses
(Studies in corpus linguistics, v. 42)
John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2011
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-229) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 1. Chapter 1. Corpus linguistics, adjectives and that-clauses
- 2. Chapter 2. Linguistic analysis of adjectives + that-clauses
- 3. Chapter 3. Subjects in the matrix clause and the that-clause and their relation to adjectives
- 4. Chapter 4. Verb-adjective combinations
- 5. Chapter 5. Objects in the matrix clause
- 6. Chapter 6. Adverbs preceding adjectives
- 7. Chapter 7. That versus zero that
- 8. Chapter 8. The verb phrase in the that-clause
- 9. Chapter 9. Making the implicit explicit
- 10. References
- 11. Appendix. Lee's genre categorization
- 12. Index
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