Perspectives on Complementation Structure, Variation and Boundaries

In recent years the increasing availability of large electronic corpora has led to a methodological shift in linguistics from intuition-based research to work that utilises electronic corpora as a source of data. This shift has given rise to a new perspective on work on complementation. 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 accessible to anyone interested in complementation, novice or expert.

Mikko Höglund is a doctoral candidate working on a grant from the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, and a part-time teacher in English Language at the University of Tampere, Finland. His research interests include cognitive-functional approaches to language, differences in British and American English grammar, and corpus compilation.

Paul Rickman is a University Teacher in English Language and a doctoral candidate at the University of Tampere, Finland. His research interests include complementation, New Zealand English, new-dialect formation, phonetics, and corpus linguistics.

Juhani Rudanko is Professor of English at the University of Tampere, Finland. He has written a number of books in the area of complementation, including Complementation and Case Grammar, Prepositions and Complement Clauses, Corpora and Complementation, and Changes in Complementation in British and American English.

Jukka Havu is Professor of French Language at the University of Tampere, Finland. He has published scientific articles on a range of topics related to tense and aspect, and verbal complementation. During the period 2001-2004 he worked as the Director of the Finnish Cultural Institute in Paris.

Introduction; Mikko Höglund
PART I: STRUCTURE
1. Constructions License Verb Frames; Laura A. Michaelis
2. Inside Out: Productive German Prepositional Objects as an Example of Complements Selecting Heads; Jouni Rostila
3. A Cross-Linguistic Perspective on Complementation in the Tough Construction; Jukka Havu and Mikko Höglund
PART II: VARIATION
4. Variability in Clausal Verb Complementation: The Case of Admit; Hubert Cuyckens and Frauke D'hoedt
5. The Embedded Negation Constraint and the Choice between More or Less Explicit Clausal Structures in English; Günter Rohdenburg
6. 'Wheedled Me into Lending Him My Best Hunter': Comparing the Emergence of the Transitive into -ing Construction in British and American English; Juhani Rudanko
7. Prepositions and Sentential Complements: The Case of Waste and Spend; Paul Rickman
8. From Doubt to Supposition: The Construction-Specific Meaning Change of the Finnish Verb Epäillä; Jutta Salminen
PART III: BOUNDARIES
9. Multiple Sources in Language Change: The Role of Free Adjuncts and Absolutes in the Formation of English ACC-ing Gerundives; Teresa Fanego
10. The Relation between Hypotactic Integration and Complementation in Cognitive Grammar; Cristiano Broccias
11. Control in Free Adjuncts in English and French: A Corpus-Based Semantico-Pragmatic Account; Patrick J. Duffley and Samuel Dion-Girardeau