Three changing patterns of verb complementation in Late Modern English
A Real-Time Study Based on Matching Text Corpora
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5810198 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C Mair (0000-0001-6549-4951, University of Freiburg, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 105-131 |
| Publication date | 2002-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | English Language and Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1360-6743 • E-ISSN: 1469-4379 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1360674302001065 |
| OpenAlex | W2091034125 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
| References cited | 14 |
The article looks at three instances of grammatical variation in present-day standard English: the use of bare and to -infinitives with the verb help , the presence or absence of the preposition/complementizer from before - ing -complements depending on prevent , and the choice between - ing - and infinitival complements after the verbs begin and start . In all three instances, current British and American usage will be shown to differ, and these differences need to be interpreted against diachronic changes affecting Late Modern English grammar as a whole. The description of twentieth-century developments is mainly based on data obtained from matching corpora of British and American standard English. Since in all three cases studied developments did not originate in the twentieth century, additional data from the quotation base of the OED were used to outline the long-term evolution of the relevant portions of the grammar since ca. 1600. In general/methodological terms, the article aims to show that an utterance-based model of language change, in combination with the exceptionally well-developed corpus-linguistic working environment available to the student of standard English, can lead to new discoveries even in a well-studied area such as the grammar of standard English
American English · Complementizer · English grammar · Modern English · Standard English · Variation (astronomy · Lexicography and Language Studies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Twentieth-Century English
Change in Contemporary English
Juho Ruohonen and Juhani Rudanko
On the History of the English Progressive Construction Jane came whistling down the street
Ambiguity Avoidance by Means of Function Words in English? Providing Additional Corpus-based Counterevidence
A Corpus‐driven Study of the Correlation Between the Syntactic Combination Strength and the Semantic Contribution in the English “V‐to‐v” Construction
In alternations, not all semantic motivation comes from semantic contrast
The importance of robust corpora in providing more realistic descriptions of variation in English grammar
Diachronic trends in the complementation of the verb prevent
Analyzing the Gerundial Patterns of prevent
Using distributional semantics to study syntactic productivity in diachrony
Don’t go getting into trouble again!”
On the Verbal Complements of Aspectual Verbs
Profiling verb complementation constructions across New Englishes
The changing functions of competing forms
Outer and expanding circle Englishes
Functional constraints in syntactic change
Help or Help to
The “ As be the case ” Construction
Text type and current grammatical change in British and American English
Text Structuring in Written English
Historical shifts with the into-causative construction in American English
Diachronic pragmatics
How to trace structural nativization
Variation across Speech and Writing
Longman grammar of spoken and written English
A Comprehensive grammar of the English language
The Distinction Between To and Bare Infinitival Complements in Late Middle English
Agile" and "Uptight" Genres
British and American Grammatical Differences
Cognitive complexity and increased grammatical explicitness in English
Webster's Dictionary of English Usage
How to set Parameters
Help to/help ⊘ revisited
On patterns of complementation with verbs of effort 1
The Use of like as a Marker of Reported Speech and Thought
Syntactic Variation and Change in Progress
Principles of Linguistic Change
| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,09 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2025 (22) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |