Changes in Complementation in British and American English: Corpus-Based Studies on Non-Finite Complements in Recent English (Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change)

Arguing that a corpus-based approach is indispensable for the study of changes of complementation in British and American English, the author examines several central patterns of sentential complementation in a number of electronic corpora to shed light on the emergence and spread of innovative constructions in relatively recent English.