Adjective Complementation: An Empirical Analysis of Adjectives Followed by "That"-clauses

Mindt, Ilka

ISBN 10: 9027223181 / ISBN 13: 9789027223180

Published by John Benjamins Pub Co, 2011

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250 pages. 9.75x6.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Adjective Complementation: An Empirical Analysis of Adjectives Followed by "That"-clauses
• Publisher: John Benjamins Pub Co
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027223181
• ISBN 13: 9789027223180
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.62 kilograms

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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.