Perspectives on Complementation

1. Introduction

1. Introduction
Mikko Höglund

Part I. Structure

2. Constructions License Verb Frames
Laura A. Michaelis

3. Inside Out: Productive German Prepositional Objects as an Example of Complements Selecting Heads
Jouni Rostila

4. A Cross-Linguistic Perspective on Complementation in the Tough Construction
Jukka Havu, Mikko Höglund

Part II. Variation

5. Variability in Clausal Verb Complementation: the Case of Admit

Hubert Cuyckens, Frauke D’hoedt

6. The Embedded Negation Constraint and the Choice between More or Less Explicit Clausal Structures in English
Günter Rohdenburg

7. ‘Wheedled Me into Lending Him My Best Hunter’: Comparing the Emergence of the Transitive into -ing Construction in British and American English
Juhani Rudanko

8. Prepositions and Sentential Complements: the Case of Waste and Spend
Paul Rickman

9. From Doubt to Supposition: the Construction-Specific Meaning Change of the Finnish Verb Epäillä

Jutta Salminen

Part III. Boundaries

10. Multiple Sources in Language Change: the Role of Free Adjuncts and Absolutes in the Formation of English ACC-ing Gerundives
Teresa Fanego

11. The Relation between Hypotactic Integration and Complementation in Cognitive Grammar
Cristiano Broccias

12. Control in Free Adjuncts in English and French: a Corpus-Based Semantico-Pragmatic Account
Patrick J. Duffley, Samuel Dion-Girardeau

Keywords: Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Syntax, Grammar, Semantics