Perspectives on Complementation: Structure, Variation and Boundaries

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
Constructions License Verb Frames....Pages 7-33
Inside Out: Productive German Prepositional Objects as an Example of Complements Selecting Heads....Pages 34-51
A Cross-Linguistic Perspective on Complementation in the Tough Construction....Pages 52-74
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
Variability in Clausal Verb Complementation: the Case of Admit ....Pages 77-100
The Embedded Negation Constraint and the Choice between More or Less Explicit Clausal Structures in English....Pages 101-127
‘Wheedled Me into Lending Him My Best Hunter’: Comparing the Emergence of the Transitive into -ing Construction in British and American English....Pages 128-140
Prepositions and Sentential Complements: the Case of Waste and Spend....Pages 141-156
From Doubt to Supposition: the Construction-Specific Meaning Change of the Finnish Verb Epäillä ....Pages 157-176
Front Matter....Pages 177-177
Multiple Sources in Language Change: the Role of Free Adjuncts and Absolutes in the Formation of English ACC-ing Gerundives....Pages 179-205
The Relation between Hypotactic Integration and Complementation in Cognitive Grammar....Pages 206-226
Control in Free Adjuncts in English and French: a Corpus-Based Semantico-Pragmatic Account....Pages 227-248
Back Matter....Pages 249-252