Adjective Complementation

An empirical analysis of adjectives followed by that-clauses

Ilka Mindt | University of Potsdam

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This is the first empirical study to focus on adjectives complemented by that-clauses. The in-depth analysis of more than 50,000 cases taken from the British National Corpus gives comprehensive insights into hitherto neglected relations of lexis and grammar. The result of this corpus-driven study is a novel classification of adjectives based on co-occurrence patterns and corroborated with the help of statistical means. The inductive analysis of corpus data offers new perspectives on and innovative descriptions of well-known phenomena of English grammar, such as extraposition or the resultative construction so…that. It is based on a new methodological approach, which looks at mutual relations of both lexis and grammar in unprecedented ways.

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 42] 2011. vii, 238 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.42

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Corpus linguistics, adjectives and that-clauses | pp. 1–10

Chapter 2. Linguistic analysis of adjectives + that-clauses | pp. 11–22

Chapter 3. Subjects in the matrix clause and the that-clause and their relation to adjectives | pp. 23–76

Chapter 4. Verb-adjective combinations | pp. 77–104

Chapter 5. Objects in the matrix clause | pp. 105–126

Chapter 6. Adverbs preceding adjectives | pp. 127–148

Chapter 7. That versus zero that | pp. 149–174

Chapter 8. The verb phrase in the that-clause | pp. 175–210

Chapter 9. Making the implicit explicit | pp. 211–222

Appendix. Lee’s genre categorization | pp. 231–234

Index | pp. 235–238

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