Adjective Complementation
An empirical analysis of adjectives followed by that-clauses
| University of Potsdam
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.
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 42] 2011. vii, 238 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Corpus linguistics, adjectives and that-clauses
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1–10
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Chapter 2. Linguistic analysis of adjectives + that-clauses
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11–22
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Chapter 3. Subjects in the matrix clause and the that-clause and their relation to adjectives
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23–76
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Chapter 4. Verb-adjective combinations
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77–104
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Chapter 5. Objects in the matrix clause
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105–126
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Chapter 6. Adverbs preceding adjectives
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127–148
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Chapter 7. That versus zero that
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149–174
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Chapter 8. The verb phrase in the that-clause
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175–210
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Chapter 9. Making the implicit explicit
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211–222
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References
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223–230
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Appendix. Lee’s genre categorization
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231–234
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Index
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235–238
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Subjects
Linguistics
BIC Subject: CFK – Grammar, syntax
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General