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Aspects of the use of the transitive into -ing pattern in New Zealand English

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Abstract

This chapter investigates the use of the transitive into -ing pattern in one of the world’s youngest dialects of English, New Zealand English (NZE). We draw on evidence collected from a diachronic NZE corpus of newspaper English, which comprises 100 million words from the years 1995–98 and 2010–12. We categorise the matrix verbs according to semantic orientation, and provide comment on any change evident between the two time-frames of the corpus, and we identify several previously undocumented matrix verbs in this pattern. Comparison is drawn to American English in an attempt to determine similarities in the use of this surprisingly productive pattern.

Abstract

This chapter investigates the use of the transitive into -ing pattern in one of the world’s youngest dialects of English, New Zealand English (NZE). We draw on evidence collected from a diachronic NZE corpus of newspaper English, which comprises 100 million words from the years 1995–98 and 2010–12. We categorise the matrix verbs according to semantic orientation, and provide comment on any change evident between the two time-frames of the corpus, and we identify several previously undocumented matrix verbs in this pattern. Comparison is drawn to American English in an attempt to determine similarities in the use of this surprisingly productive pattern.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgments vii
  4. Structures, patterns, constructions – studying variation and change in lexico-grammar 1
  5. Part 1. Semantic description of constructions
  6. Talk into vs convince to 15
  7. Passive permissives 31
  8. Goldberg’s Rely On construction 55
  9. Part 2. Variation and change in complementation patterns
  10. Aspects of the use of the transitive into -ing pattern in New Zealand English 71
  11. Complementation of ashamed  – diachrony and determinants of variation 89
  12. Sentential complementation of propose in recent British English 109
  13. The use of optional complement markers in present-day English 129
  14. Patterns of direct transitivization and differences between British and American English 151
  15. Part 3. The emergence of new patterns
  16. I would like to request for your attention 171
  17. The development of infinitival complementation with or without language contact 197
  18. Anglicising Finnish complementation? Examining the rakastan puhua (‘I love to speak’) structure in present-day Finnish 215
  19. Author index 233
  20. Subject index 235
Changing Structures
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https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.195.05ric

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgments vii
  4. Structures, patterns, constructions – studying variation and change in lexico-grammar 1
  5. Part 1. Semantic description of constructions
  6. Talk into vs convince to 15
  7. Passive permissives 31
  8. Goldberg’s Rely On construction 55
  9. Part 2. Variation and change in complementation patterns
  10. Aspects of the use of the transitive into -ing pattern in New Zealand English 71
  11. Complementation of ashamed  – diachrony and determinants of variation 89
  12. Sentential complementation of propose in recent British English 109
  13. The use of optional complement markers in present-day English 129
  14. Patterns of direct transitivization and differences between British and American English 151
  15. Part 3. The emergence of new patterns
  16. I would like to request for your attention 171
  17. The development of infinitival complementation with or without language contact 197
  18. Anglicising Finnish complementation? Examining the rakastan puhua (‘I love to speak’) structure in present-day Finnish 215
  19. Author index 233
  20. Subject index 235
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