Complementation in British and American English: Corpus-Based Studies on Prepositions and Complement Clauses in British and American English.0761832920 Complementation Complementation (genetics) The complementary action of different genetic factors. The term usually implies two homologous chromosomes or chromosome sets, each defective because of mutation and unable by itself to promote the normal development or metabolism of in British and American English American English n. The English language as used in the United States. Noun 1. American English - the English language as used in the United States American language, American ; corpus-based studies on prepositions and complement clauses in British and American English. Rudanko, Juhani and Lea Luodes. Univ. Press of America 2005 132 pages $23.95 Paperback PE1704 Utilizing data from the Bank of English The Bank of English is the name of the COBUILD corpus, a collection of English texts. These are mainly British, but American and Australian data are also included. The majority of the texts are from written English, but there is also a large component of spoken data. Corpus--an electronic corpus of some 600 million works--Rudanko (English, U. of Tampere, Finland) and Luodes (German, U. of Tampere, Finland) examine a number of core patterns of sentential complementation, as exemplified in newspaper and spoken British and American English. Seven patterns are discussed; transitive verbs Noun 1. transitive verb - a verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical transitive, transitive verb form verb - the word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence selecting into -ing complements, transitive verbs selecting out of -ing complements, intransitive verbs selecting on -ing complements, adjectives selecting to infinitive infinitive: see mood; tense. and to -ing complements, intransitive verbs selecting to infinitive and to -ing complements, nouns selecting to infinitive and to -ing complements, and intrasitive verbs selecting towards/toward - ing. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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