Adjective Complementation
An empirical analysis of adjectives followed by <i>that</i>-clauses
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- Author(s): Ilka Mindt 1
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsAffiliations:1 University of Potsdam
- Format: PDF
- Publication Date May 2011
- e-Book ISBN: 9789027287267
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.42
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.
Related Topics:
Corpus linguistics
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English linguistics
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Germanic linguistics
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Syntax
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Theoretical linguistics
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