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This book showcases fresh research into the underexplored territory
of complementation through a detailed analysis of gerunds and 'to'
infinitives involving control in English. Drawing on large
electronic corpora of recent English, it examines subject control
in adjectival predicate constructions with 'scared', 'terrified'
and 'afraid', moving on to a study of object control with the
verbal predicate 'warn'. In each chapter a case study is presented
of a matrix adjective that selects both infinitival and gerundial
complements, and a central theme is the application of the Choice
Principle as a novel factor bearing on complement selection. The
authors argue that it is helpful to view the patterns in question
as constructions, as combinations of form and meaning, within the
system of English predicate complementation, and convincingly
demonstrate how a new gerundial pattern has emerged and spread in
the course of the last two centuries. This book will appeal to
scholars of semantics, corpus linguistics, and historical
linguistics as well as those with an interest in variation and
change in recent English more generally.
This book implements a new approach to the study of manipulative
tactics in selected Congressional debates in the early history of
the United States, highlighting the ways in which language can be
used to manipulate an audience. The identification and analysis of
different informal fallacies is central in the approach adopted by
the authors, and they privilege the role of covert intentions as a
frequent ingredient of manipulation. They also show how different
speakers can use different subtypes of the same fallacy in a
debate, and investigate the tension between the policy preferences
and goals of politicians, and existing laws. The book has been
written without jargon, all concepts and terminology from the field
of linguistic pragmatics are clearly defined, and it is accessible
to the interested layperson wishing to become familiar with
manipulative techniques in political rhetoric.
This book showcases fresh research into the underexplored territory
of complementation through a detailed analysis of gerunds and 'to'
infinitives involving control in English. Drawing on large
electronic corpora of recent English, it examines subject control
in adjectival predicate constructions with 'scared', 'terrified'
and 'afraid', moving on to a study of object control with the
verbal predicate 'warn'. In each chapter a case study is presented
of a matrix adjective that selects both infinitival and gerundial
complements, and a central theme is the application of the Choice
Principle as a novel factor bearing on complement selection. The
authors argue that it is helpful to view the patterns in question
as constructions, as combinations of form and meaning, within the
system of English predicate complementation, and convincingly
demonstrate how a new gerundial pattern has emerged and spread in
the course of the last two centuries. This book will appeal to
scholars of semantics, corpus linguistics, and historical
linguistics as well as those with an interest in variation and
change in recent English more generally.
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