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Adjective Complementation: An empirical analysis of adjectives followed by that -clauses

By Ilka Mindt

Book information

Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Year
2011
ISBN
9027223181, 9789027223180
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3130285 bytes)
Series
Studies in Corpus Linguistics
Pages
248\249
Time added
2018-05-10 01:28:13
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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.

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