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Acknowledgements
Structures, patterns, constructions – studying variation and change in lexico-grammar
Part 1Semantic description of constructions
Talk into vs convince to: talking as a cause leading to containment, convincing as a cause leading to result
Passive permissives: Being let and allowed
Rely On Construction: Overreliance on Generalization?
Part 2Variation and change in complementation patterns
Aspects of the use of the transitive into -ing pattern in New Zealand English
Complementation of ashamed – diachrony and determinants of variation
Sentential complementation of propose in recent British English
The use of optional complement markers in present-day English: The role of passivization and other complexity factors
Patterns of direct transitivization and differences between British and American English
Part 3The emergence of new patterns
I would like to request for your attention: On the diachrony of prepositional verbs in Singapore English
The development of infinitival complementation with or without language contact
Anglicising Finnish complementation? Examining the rakastan puhua (‘I love to speak’) structure in present-day Finnish
Author index
Subject index
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