Corpus-Based Studies on Non-Finite Complements in Recent English by Paul Rickman & Juhani Rudanko

Author:Paul Rickman & Juhani Rudanko
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

[+Choice]

[−Choice]

Total

to infinitives

19

2

21

of -ing complements

21

40

61

The results of the Chi square test put the Chi square number at 17.46, meaning that the Choice Principle in this case has a highly significant effect, at p < 0.0001 (df = 1).

Examples of [+Choice] and [−Choice] tokens with both complement types in British English are given in (15a–b) and (16a–b) below. (15)

a.

Linda had said that she was terrified [pause] to get Lego for the little boy.

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