Spreading Patterns: Diffusional Change in the English System of Complementation

by Hendrik De Smet

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Spreading Patterns examines how new constructions emerge and spread through the grammar of a language, in a process called "diffusion". This is done by tracking the development of three types of complements from the Middle English period to the present day. These are subject-controlled gerund complements, for...to-infinitives, and subject-controlled participial complements. In the first half of the book, De Smet focuses on how and why patterns diffuse...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0199812756

ISBN13:9780199812752

Release Date:December 2012

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:304 Pages

Weight:1.20 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"

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Language Arts

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