Adjective Complementation: An empirical analysis of adjectives followed by that-clauses: 42

Ilka Mindt

ISBN 10: 9027223181 / ISBN 13: 9789027223180

Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011

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THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. 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 sothat. It is based on a new methodological approach, which looks at mutual relations of both lexis and grammar in unprecedented ways. Copyright © John Benjamins Publishing Company.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Adjective Complementation: An empirical analysis of adjectives followed by that-clauses: 42
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027223181
• ISBN 13: 9789027223180
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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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.