On the Transitive Object Control into ­ing Complementation Pattern in Contemporary Spoken American English: a Corpus­Driven Study

On the Transitive Object Control into ­ing Complementation Pattern in Contemporary Spoken American English: a Corpus­Driven Study

The aim of this paper is threefold: firstly, to establish whether the transitive into -ing complementation pattern is productive; secondly, to establish the semantic taxonomy of the matrix verbs taking the into -ing complementation pattern; thirdly, to investigate the existence of a correlation betw...

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Main Author: Oskar Gawlik
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Vilnius University 2016-10-01
Series:Respectus Philologicus
Subjects:
The Into -ing Pattern
Matrix Verbs
Complementation
Spoken English
Online Access:http://www.zurnalai.vu.lt/respectus-philologicus/article/view/13584

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