J Rudanko: 3 books
Changes in Complementation in British and American English
Corpus-Based Studies on Non-Finite Complements in Recent English
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
The book shows how the system of English predicate complementation has been undergoing an amazing amount of variation and change in recent centuries, and identifies explanatory principles to account for this change and variation, with evidence from large electronic corpora of both British and American English.
Discourses of Freedom of Speech
From the Enactment of the Bill of Rights to the Sedition Act of 1918
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Freedom of speech is a tradition distinctive to American political culture, and this book focuses on major debates and discourses that shaped this tradition. It sheds fresh light on key Congressional debates in the early American Republic, developing and applying an approach to fallacy theory suitable to the study of political discourse.
Linking Form and Meaning
Studies on Selected Control Patterns in Recent English
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
This book documents changes and trends in English predicate complementation. In-depth case studies of grammatical patterns presented here uncover new links between form and meaning in these constructions, offering fresh insights into explanatory principles to account for variation and change in the system of English predicate complementation.