Adjective Complementation: An empirical analysis of adjectives followed by that-clauses: 42 (Studies in Corpus Linguistics) - Hardcover

Mindt, Ilka

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027223181 ISBN 13: 9789027223180

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2011

Synopsis

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027223181
• ISBN 13: 9789027223180
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 248