Spreading Patterns

Diffusional Change in the English System of Complementation

Hendrik De Smet

Oxford University Press
Publication date : 2012-12-12

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Spreading Patterns examines how new constructions emerge and spread through the grammar of a language, in a process called "diffusion". This is done by tracking the development of three types of complements from the Middle English period to the present day. These are subject-controlled gerund complements, for…to-infinitives, and subject-controlled participial complements. In the first half of the book, De Smet focuses on how and why patterns diffuse. In the second half, which is largely corpus-based, De Smet tests his theoretical model of diffusion on the three complement types. His work demonstrates how diffusion interacts with the grammatical system of complementation, how diffusion proceeds, step-by-step, and why diffusion is directional. Spreading Patterns will appeal to scholars and advanced students of English, history of English, and historical linguistics.

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Hendrik De Smet

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Oxford University Press

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2012-12-12

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9780199812752

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English

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Hendrik De Smet

Hendrik De Smet is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Linguistics at the University of Leuven.

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