The grammar of complement-taking mental predicate constructions in present-day spoken British English. A corpus-based study of their syntactic, semantic and pragmatic behaviour as members of a constructional taxonomy

Start - End 

2004 - 2009 (completed)

Type 

PhD research

Department(s) 

Department of Linguistics

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Abstract

This research is a systematic, quantitative and qualitative corpus-based investigation of complement-taking mental predicates in English.

People

Supervisor(s)

Miriam Taverniers

• Department of Linguistics

• Alignment
• Alternation
• Comparative
• English
• Functional linguistics
• Germanic linguistics
• Language and text analysis
• Linguistics
• Metaphor
• Predication
• Semantics
• Semiotics
• Surveys
• Syntax
• Syntax/semantics interface
• Syntax and semantics
• Verbal semantics
• Verb alternations
• Verb valency

Anne-Marie Vandenbergen

• Department of Linguistics

Phd Student(s)

Julie Van Bogaert

• Department of History
• Library of the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy