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Perspectives on
Complementation
Structure, Variation and Boundaries
Edited by
Mikko Höglund
Stockholm University, Sweden
Paul Rickman, Juhani Rudanko and Jukka Havu
University of Tampere, Finland
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Juhani Rudanko and Jukka Havu 2015
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Contents
List of Tables vii
List of Figures x
Notes on the Contributors xi
List of Glossing Abbreviations xiv
Introduction 1
Mikko Höglund
Part I Structure
1 Constructions License Verb Frames 7
Laura A. Michaelis
2 Inside Out: Productive German Prepositional Objects as
an Example of Complements Selecting Heads 34
Jouni Rostila
3 A Cross-Linguistic Perspective on Complementation
in the Tough Construction 52
Jukka Havu and Mikko Höglund
Part II Variation
4 Variability in Clausal Verb Complementation: the Case
of Admit 77
Hubert Cuyckens and Frauke D’hoedt
5 The Embedded Negation Constraint and the Choice
between More or Less Explicit Clausal Structures in English 101
Günter Rohdenburg
6 ‘Wheedled Me into Lending Him My Best Hunter’:
Comparing the Emergence of the Transitive into -ing
Construction in British and American English 128
Juhani Rudanko
7 Prepositions and Sentential Complements: the Case of
Waste and Spend 141
Paul Rickman
8 From Doubt to Supposition: the Construction-Specifi c
Meaning Change of the Finnish Verb Epäillä 157
Jutta Salminen
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Part III Boundaries
9 Multiple Sources in Language Change: the Role of Free
Adjuncts and Absolutes in the Formation of English
ACC-ing Gerundives 179
Teresa Fanego
10 The Relation between Hypotactic Integration and
Complementation in Cognitive Grammar 206
Cristiano Broccias
11 Control in Free Adjuncts in English and French:
a Corpus-Based Semantico-Pragmatic Account 227
Patrick J. Duffl ey and Samuel Dion-Girardeau
Index 249
List of Tables
1.1 Event-structure templates 11
3.1 Division of typical TC adjectives into semantic fields 54
4.1 Number of attestations of CCs with admit 83
5.1 Finite and infinitival complements associated with the verb
pledge in British newspapers (t90–4, g90–4, d91–4, m93–4) 104
5.2 Finite and infinitival complements associated with and
immediately following the string he vowed in British
newspapers (t90–00, g90–00, d91–00, m93–00) 105
5.3 Finite and infinitival complements after the sequence directive
verb + (personal) object in 10 selected authors of the sixteenth
to (early) eighteenth centuries 105
5.4 Finite and non-finite complements after the verb advise (used
without personal object) in British and American English 107
5.5 The rivalry between passive finite complements and for …
to-infinitives after active uses of mandative plead in American
newspapers (L92–9, D92–5, W90–2, N01) and Time Magazine
for 1989–94 108
5.6 The rivalry between finite complements and gerunds after
active uses of mandative advocate in the Los Angeles Times
for 1992–9 109
5.7 Finite and gerundial complements associated with the
noun risk in British newspapers (Contextual restriction:
use of subject expressions involving the definite article
immediately following risk that/Ø/of) 109
5.8 Finite and gerundial clauses associated with in the event in
British and American newspapers 110
5.9 Marked and unmarked infinitives after the verb help + object
in British and American periodicals 111
5.10 Marked and unmarked infinitives immediately following the
verb bid + object in British authors born between 1800 and
1869 (NCF, MNC/B, LNC/B) 112
5.11 Marked infinitives and pseudo-coordinated structures
associated with and immediately following the verb stem
try in the BNC 113
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5.12 Passive complements after the verb advise in British and
American newspapers 115
5.13 Passive complements associated with directive uses of
the verb suggest in British and American newspapers 115
5.14 Competing verb forms in adverbial clauses introduced by
(up)on (the) condition in a British and American newspaper
database 116
5.15 Infinitival and gerundial complements immediately
following the verb advise (used without a personal object)
in British and American English 117
5.16 Infinitival and gerundial complements immediately
following the verb begin in British and American newspapers 118
5.17 Infinitival and gerundial complements immediately
following the verb start in British and American newspapers 118
5.18 Infinitival and gerundial complements immediately
following the verb prefer in British and American newspapers 119
5.19 Infinitival and gerundial complements associated with and
immediately following the verb feign in British and American
newspapers (t90–04, g90–05, d91–00, d02, d04–5, i93–4, i02–5,
m93–00; L92–9, D92–5, W90–92, N01, TAL89–94) 119
5.20 Prepositional gerunds and directly linked ones immediately
following the verb admit in American newspapers (L92–9,
D92–5, W90–2) 120
6.1 Frequencies of the ‘Verb NP into being’ and ‘Verb NP into -ing’
patterns in four decades of COHA 133
6.2 Frequencies of the ‘Verb NP into being’ and ‘Verb NP into -ing’
patterns in the first period of the CLMET3.0 136
6.3 Frequencies of the ‘Verb NP into being’ and ‘Verb NP into -ing’
patterns in the second period of the CLMET3.0 137
7.1 Prepositions in the spend + NP + (in/on) + V-ing pattern across
three centuries 145
7.2 Prepositions in the waste + NP + (in/on) + V-ing pattern across
three centuries 146
7.3 Preposition use with waste no time + (in) + V-ing over 150 years
in COHA 151
7.4 Preposition use with waste no time + (in) + V-ing in COCA
and the BNC 151
8.1 Numbers of different constructions in the corpora 159
8.2 The polar interpretations of the construction epäillä + että
clause in the data 160
List of Tabl es ix
8.3 The two phases of the polar interpretation of the
epäillä + että complement 162
8.4 The polar interpretations of the construction epäillä +
non-finite complement in the data 164
8.5 The polar interpretations of the construction
epäillä + embedded question in the data 166
8.6 The polar interpretations of the construction epäillä +
Ø in the data 170
9.1 Range of corpora and subperiods examined 181
9.2 ACC-ing gerundives, per subperiod and syntactic function 187
9.3 NPs and pronouns functioning as subject arguments of
ACC-ing gerundives 188
9.4 Matrix predicates with ACC-ing clauses functioning as
preverbal subjects 198
11.1 Contingency table: control type by matrix subject type for
adjuncts with gerund-participle (English) 232
11.2 Contingency table: control type by matrix verb voice for
adjuncts with gerund-participle (English) 232
11.3 Contingency table: control type by function type for
adjuncts with gerund-participle (English) 234
11.4 Contingency table: control type by matrix verb voice for
adjuncts with gerund-participle (English) 235
11.5 Contingency table: control type by matrix subject type for
adjuncts with infinitive (English) 235
11.6 Contingency table: control type by function type for
adjuncts with infinitive (English) 236
11.7 Contingency table: control type by matrix subject type for
adjuncts with present participle (French) 239
11.8 Contingency table: control type by matrix verb voice for
adjuncts with present participle (French) 240
11.9 Contingency table: control type by function type for
adjuncts with present participle (French) 241
11.10 Contingency table: control type by matrix subject type for
adjuncts with infinitive (French) 242
11.11 Contingency table: control type by matrix verb voice for
adjuncts with infinitive (French) 243
11.12 Contingency table: control type by function type for
adjuncts with infinitive (French) 244
