Spreading Change: Diffusional Change in the English System of
Complementation examines the emergence and spread of three types of
complements from the Middle English period to the present day. The
three types of complements are subject-controlled gerund
complements (1), for...to-infinitives (2), and subject-controlled
participial compelements (3). (1) The cat loves being stroked,
absolutely loves it! (2) We couldn't afford for it to go wrong. (3)
The receptionist is busy filling a fifth box. In the first half of
the book De Smet addresses the theoretical issues by summarizing a
number of major approaches to the study of complementation, and by
focusing on how and why a particular change spreads (a process that
he calls "diffusion"). In the second half, which is descriptive and
largely corpus-based, De Smet tests these mechanisms on the three
complement types. His work demonstrates: a) how diffusion interacts
with the grammatical system of complementation; b) how diffusion
proceeds, step-by-step; and c) why diffusion is directional.
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