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Changing Structures: Studies in constructions and complementation
Edited by Mark Kaunisto, Mikko Höglund and Paul Rickman
[Studies in Language Companion Series 195] 2018
► pp. 235–236

Subject index

A

  • analogy63, 73, 165, 189–190 , 199–200

B

  • Bach’s Generalisation114
  • biclausality 205–6 , 210

C

  • Choice Principle3, 93, 104
  • collostructional strength18
  • colonial lag5, 75, 147, 153, 164, 173, 183–184
  • complement marker, complementizer 129–146
  • complexity 81–82 , 93, 129–133 , 139, 143–145 , 165, 201–202
  • Complexity Principle3, 129–131 , 135, 137–138 , 144–146 , 165
  • conjunctive participle205
  • construction1, 6–7 , 15–16 , 19, 23, 24–28 , 31–33 , 38, 55–58 , 66, 74, 87, 103, 217, 227
    • argument structure construction (ASC) 55–57 , 59–66
    • causative 15–16 , 19, 27, 33
    • caused motion 27–28 , 73
    • Construction Grammar (CxG)24, 26, 28, 55–56 , 66
    • permissive7, 31, 33–34
  • container metaphor15, 19–21 , 24
  • contrastive linguistics55
  • control theory93, 109–110 , 112–113
    • object control8, 28, 73, 113–114 , 121, 207–208
    • subject control8, 28, 73, 113–114 , 121, 123–124 , 203, 207
    • unspecified control8, 109, 113, 122–126
  • copular94, 101–102 , 104
  • corpus
    • Bank of English corpus (BOE)15, 22
    • British National Corpus (BNC)31, 76, 110, 114, 157, 182
    • Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)15, 32, 80, 90, 157
    • Corpus of Historical American English (COHA)32, 93, 158
    • Corpus of Late Modern English Texts (CLMET)109, 114
    • Corpus of New Zealand Newspaper English (CNZNE)72, 76
    • Early English Books Online corpus (EEBO)183
    • Global Web-based English corpus (GloWbE)5, 80, 157–158 , 179–180
    • LOB corpus5, 130–132
    • News on the Web corpus (NOW)179
    • Syntax Archives of Finnish217, 228
    • TIME corpus 79–80 , 83

D

  • direct transitivization9, 151–153
  • Domain Minimization Principle145

E

  • Embedded Negation Constraint138
  • embodied cognition, embodiment 24–25
  • enablement34
  • End-weight, Principle of145
  • English
    • American 46–47 , 50, 73, 75, 79–80 , 129–146 , 151–166 , 176–177
    • as a Foreign Language (EFL)172, 190
    • as a Lingua Franca (ELF)172, 222–223
    • as a Second Language (ESL)158, 171, 177, 190
    • British47, 109, 129–146 , 151–166 , 171–173 , 176–177 , 184, 189
    • Indian171, 173
    • New Zealand 71–84 , 171, 190
    • Old197, 206, 211, 227
    • Singapore 171–193
  • event (causation)16, 18, 20–21 , 26–27
  • Exceptional Case Marking (ECM)203
  • extraction93, 102, 104, 145

F

  • finiteness197, 199
  • Finnish198, 215–222 , 224–229
  • first language interference173, 189
  • force dynamics 31–32

G

  • Generative Grammar25
  • German 55–57 , 59–62 , 65, 67
  • gerund-participle 16–29
  • grammaticalization59, 61, 63, 137, 200
  • Great Complement Shift3, 74, 90, 118, 120

H

  • horror aequi effect137

I

  • infinitive
    • bare infinitive21, 31–53 , 134–137 , 165
    • to infinitive 15–24 , 27–29 , 31–53 , 74, 89–104 , 109–126 , 134–137 , 197–212
  • innovation72, 77, 80–82 , 153, 164–165 , 171, 173, 177, 181, 193, 205, 218–223 , 230
  • into -ing See transitive patternseeinto -ing
  • Irish198, 207
  • irrealis197, 202–203 , 208–211

K

  • Kachru’s three circle model5, 172

L

  • language
    • acquisition65, 190, 198, 201–202
    • change3, 7–8 , 10, 71–72 , 90, 109, 115–116 , 163–165 , 189, 198, 202–203 , 215–230
    • contact 9–10 , 56, 172, 174, 189, 197–212 , 216, 218
    • policy174
  • lexicalisation33, 142

M

  • Malay
    • Ambonese200
    • Sri Lankan 197–211
  • nativization 171–193

N

  • Natural Semantic Metalanguage15, 25
  • new-dialect formation75

P

  • particle verb3, 140–143 , 145, 176
    • phrasal81, 176, 180
    • prepositional 171–193
  • passive
    • passivization3, 8, 129
    • permissive7, 31–53
    • voice 31–53 , 93, 95, 101–102 , 129–146 , 159–162 , 186
  • path metaphor15, 21, 34
  • perfect aspect 94–95 , 102, 104
  • polysemy57, 60, 62–63 , 65
  • prepositional objects8, 59, 65, 114, 151
  • PRO72, 113, 121
  • purposive meaning201, 208–211
  • regrammaticalization197, 201

S

  • Schneider’s dynamic model 171–172 , 187
  • Singlish 174–175 , 189
  • Speak Good English Movement174, 193

T

  • te reo Māori84
  • transitive into -ing pattern 15–29 , 71–84
  • translation (transfer via) 215–230

U

  • understood argument 72–73 , 91, 113, 121, 124