Complementation

by Kaoru Horie
Complementation
Author: Kaoru Horie
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9789027238863
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Complementation, i.e. predication encoded in argument slots, is well-renowned for its syntactic and semantic variability across languages. As such, it poses a tantalizing descriptive/explanatory challenge to linguists of any theoretical persuasion. Recent developments in Cognitive and Functional-typological linguistics have enabled researchers to address various unexplored research questions on complementation phenomena. The seven papers included in this volume represent the most recent endeavors to explore cognitive-functional foundations of complementation phenomena from various theoretical perspectives (Cognitive Grammar, Mental Space Theory, Typology, Discourse-functional linguistics, Cognitive Science). The seven papers are prefaced by an introductory chapter (Kaoru Horie and Bernard Comrie) which situates the current volume within the major complementation studies of the past forty years. This work presents a new theoretical venue of complementation studies and enhances our understanding of this complex yet intriguing syntactic and semantic phenomenon.

Adjective Complementation

by Ilka Mindt
Adjective Complementation
Author: Ilka Mindt
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2011
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027223181
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Complementation

by Evelyn N. Ransom
Complementation
Author: Evelyn N. Ransom
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 238
Release: 1986-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027279187
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This book presents a stage in the evolution of a theory of modality meanings and forms. It covers exclusively complements. There are two questions that this book addresses. Can one find a small, finite set of meanings which systematically underlies the enormous variety of meanings found in complements? And can one make any predictions from this set of meanings about the variety of forms they take? The answer to both questions is yes. The author convincingly shows how a multiplicity of sentence meanings and forms can be accounted for by breaking down sentence meaning into a small set of modules and howing how these modules combine to express certain meanings and how complement forms are related to them and their combinations.

Complementation

by R. M. W. Dixon
Complementation
Author: R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2006-06-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0191516422
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This book explores the variety of types of complementation found across the languages of the world and their grammatical properties and meanings. It shows how languages differ in the grammatical properties of complement clauses and in the types of verbs which take them, and explores the complement strategies deployed by languages which lack a complement clause construction. The book includes detailed studies of particular languages, including Akkadian, Israeli, Jarawara, and Pennsylvania German. These are framed by R. M. W. Dixon's introduction, which sets out the range of issues, and his conclusion, which draws together the evidence and the arguments.

Complementation and Case Grammar

by Martti Juhani Rudanko
Complementation and Case Grammar
Author: Martti Juhani Rudanko
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1989-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780887069314
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This book offers a new and compendious account of important verbal patterns in present-day English. Serving as a central source of data, it updates and refines earlier research contributing to the syntactic and semantic description of English. Rudanko establishes an original framework, and systematically analyzes patterns of complementation using the tool of case grammar. The examination of Control, or EQUI, is a common theme and an important problem for transformationalists, and English syntacticians will value Rudanko's work on infinitive complements.

Complementation and Case Grammar

by Juhani Rudanko
Complementation and Case Grammar
Author: Juhani Rudanko
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 188
Release: 1989-07-03
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780887069321
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This book offers a new and compendious account of important verbal patterns in present-day English. Serving as a central source of data, it updates and refines earlier research contributing to the syntactic and semantic description of English. Rudanko establishes an original framework, and systematically analyzes patterns of complementation using the tool of case grammar. The examination of Control, or EQUI, is a common theme and an important problem for transformationalists, and English syntacticians will value Rudanko’s work on infinitive complements.

Adjective Complementation

by Ilka Mindt
Adjective Complementation
Author: Ilka Mindt
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2011-05-12
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027287260
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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.

Perspectives on Complementation

by M. Höglund
Perspectives on Complementation
Author: M. Höglund
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2015-04-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1137450061
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This book presents the latest work in the field of complementation studies. Leading scholars and upcoming researchers in the area approach complementation from various perspectives and different frameworks, such as Cognitive Grammar and construction grammars, to offer a broad survey of the field and provide thought-provoking reading.

Clausal Complementation in South Slavic

by Björn Wiemer
Clausal Complementation in South Slavic
Author: Björn Wiemer
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2021-11-08
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110725851
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This volume assembles contributions addressing clausal complementation across the entire South Slavic territory. The main focus is on particular aspects of complementation, covering the contemporary standard languages as well as older stages and/or non-standard varieties and the impact of language contact, primarily with non-Slavic languages. Presenting in-depth studies, they thus contribute to the overarching collective aim of arriving at a comprehensive picture of the patterns of clausal complementation on which South Slavic languages profile against a wider typological background, but also diverge internally if we look closer at details in the contemporary stage and in diachronic development. The volume divides into an introduction setting the stage for the single case-studies, an article developing a general template of complementation with a detailed overview of the components relevant for South Slavic, studies addressing particular structural phenomena from different theoretical viewpoints, and articles focusing on variation in space and/or time.