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Diachronic Studies of English Complementation Patterns: Eighteenth Century Evidence in Tracing the Development of Verbs and Adjectives Selecting Prepositions and Complement Clauses - Rilegato

Rudanko, Juhani

 
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Examines a number of patterns of several common prepositions followed by a -ing clause, such as He is opposed to changing the agreement and I determined on forgetting my unworthy lover. Draws on a number of large corpi to establish changes in usage, at least in written usage, over the past three centuries. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Juhani Rudanko is Professor of English at the University of Tampere, Finland and the author of Change and Continuity in the English Language (University Press of America, 1998).

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