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- Title
Rudanko, J. (2006). Watching English grammar change: a case study on complement selection in British and American English.
- Abstract
The article presents a view of a case study that compared complement selection in British and American English. Texts from 18th and 19th century fiction literature were studied with the present day British and American language styles used in newspaper texts. The results of the comparison show change in variants through the time period. The author finds that extraction may be the probable cause for the selection of complements. It is suggested that extraction of the direct object of the subordinate clause favors the more frequent use of the present complement in the British English when compared with American English.
- Subjects
ENGLISH language -- Complement; EXTRACTION (Linguistics); COMPETENCE &; performance (Linguistics); ENGLISH influences on American literature; CORPORA; SPOKEN English; VARIATION in language; NEWSPAPERS; LANGUAGE &; languages
- Publication
International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 2006, Vol 11, Issue 4, p514
- ISSN
1384-6655
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/ijcl.11.4.15lyn