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  • Changes in Complementation in British and American English

    Corpus-Based Studies on Non-Finite Complements in Recent English

    de J. Rudanko ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    The book shows how the system of English predicate complementation has been undergoing an amazing amount of variation and change in recent centuries, and identifies explanatory principles to account for this change and variation, with evidence from large electronic corpora of both British and American English. ... Leer más

    $49.49 USD

  • Linking Form and Meaning

    Studies on Selected Control Patterns in Recent English

    de J. Rudanko ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book documents changes and trends in English predicate complementation. In-depth case studies of grammatical patterns presented here uncover new links between form and meaning in these constructions, offering fresh insights into explanatory principles to account for variation and change in the system of English predicate complementation. ... Leer más

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  • Discourses of Freedom of Speech

    From the Enactment of the Bill of Rights to the Sedition Act of 1918

    de J. Rudanko ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Freedom of speech is a tradition distinctive to American political culture, and this book focuses on major debates and discourses that shaped this tradition. It sheds fresh light on key Congressional debates in the early American Republic, developing and applying an approach to fallacy theory suitable to the study of political discourse. ... Leer más

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  • Perspectives on Complementation

    Structure, Variation and Boundaries

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book presents the latest work in the field of complementation studies. Leading scholars and upcoming researchers in the area approach complementation from various perspectives and different frameworks, such as Cognitive Grammar and construction grammars, to offer a broad survey of the field and provide thought-provoking reading. ... Leer más

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  • Variation in Non-finite Constructions in English

    Trends Affecting Infinitives and Gerunds

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book sheds new light on the nature of gerunds in English, utilizing data from very large electronic corpora in order to compare pairs of patterns viewed as constructions. It serves as a contribution to the study of complementation, an under-researched area of investigation which bridges observations at the intersection of lexico-grammar, syntax and semantics. As a result, the reader develops ... Leer más

    $49.49 USD

  • Corpus-Based Studies on Non-Finite Complements in Recent English

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book showcases fresh research into the underexplored territory of complementation through a detailed analysis of gerunds and ‘to’ infinitives involving control in English. Drawing on large electronic corpora of recent English, it examines subject control in adjectival predicate constructions with ‘scared’, ‘terrified’ and ‘afraid’, moving on to a study of object control with the verbal ... Leer más

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  • Infinitival vs Gerundial Complementation with Afraid, Accustomed, and Prone

    Multivariate Corpus Studies

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores the concept of complementation in the adjectival domain of English grammar. Alternation between non-finite complements, especially to infinitives and gerundial complements, has been investigated intensively on the basis of large corpora in the last few years. With very few exceptions, however, such work has hitherto been based on univariate analysis methods. Using multivariate ... Leer más

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  • Political Argumentation in Early America

    Informal Fallacies in Selected Debates 1789 to 1800

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book investigates the language used by protagonists in four major political debates in the early history of the United States. The first of these concerns the controversy in the first United States House of Representatives in the summer of 1789 on whether a proposal for a bill of rights should be considered in an expeditious fashion or whether the issue should be left till much later. The ... Leer más

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  • Manipulative Fallacies in Early America

    Studies on Selected Congressional Debates 1789 to 1799

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book implements a new approach to the study of manipulative tactics in selected Congressional debates in the early history of the United States, highlighting the ways in which language can be used to manipulate an audience. The identification and analysis of different informal fallacies is central in the approach adopted by the authors, and they privilege the role of covert intentions as a ... Leer más

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  • Infinitives and Gerunds in Recent English

    Studies on Non-Finite Complements with Data from Large Corpora

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores the grammar of to infinitives and gerundial -ing clauses, which is a central area at the interface of syntax and semantics, against the background of what has been called the Great Complement Shift. Over the course of six chapters, the author explores the semantic properties of constructions where the general spread of gerundial -ing clauses occurs at the expense of to ... Leer más

    $53.99 USD

  • Fallacies and Free Speech

    Selected Discourses in Early America

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book offers a new perspective on selected discourses and texts bearing on the evolution of a distinctively American tradition of free speech. The author’s approach privileges fallacy theory, especially the fallacy of ad socordiam, in a key Congressional debate in 1789 and other forms of verbal manipulation in newspaper editorials during the War of 1812. He argues that in order to understand ... Leer más

    $58.49 USD

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    Federal Courts and the Law - New Edition

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