Complementation in British and American English

Juhani Rudanko is Professor of English in the Department of English at the University of Tampere, Finland. His earlier publications include Prepositions and Complement Clauses (1996) and Corpora and Complementation (University Press of America, 2000).Lea Luodes is a graduate of the University of Tampere, Finland, where she is currently an assistant in the Department of German. Her field of specialization is the use of electronic corpora in the study of language.

• Chapter 1 PrefaceChapter 2 IntroductionChapter 3 The Power of a Pattern: A Case Study of Linguistic InnovativenessChapter 4 Transitive Verbs Selecting out of -ing ComplementsChapter 5 Intransitive Verbs Selecting on -ing ComplementsChapter 6 Adjectives Selecting to Infinitive and to -ing ComplementsChapter 7 Intransitive Verbs Selecting to Infinitive and to -ing ComplementsChapter 8 Nouns Selecting to Infinitive and to -ing ComplementsChapter 9 Intransitive Verbs Selecting towards/toward -ing Chapter 10 Concluding Observations