Essays about: "verb complementation"

Found 3 essays containing the words verb complementation.

1. 1. “I love using the gerund!”: An Empirical Study on the Complementation of Emotive Verbs in English

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Author : Ann Hermansson; [2020]
   Keywords : linguistics; gerund; infinitive; verb complementation; emotive verb; English; Swedish; translation; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : This essay concerns the complementation of the English emotive verbs like, love, hate and prefer. In English, gerund-participial and infinitival complements often receive semi-synonymous semantic interpretations when complementing emotive verbs. READ MORE

3. 2. Complementation of adjectives : A corpus-based study of adjectival complementation by that- and to-clauses

   University essay from Engelska institutionen

   Author : Henrik Kaatari; [2010]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : This corpus-based study investigates adjectives that allow complementation by both that- and to-clauses. The study is concerned with arriving at a structural and functional description of the distribution of adjectives that allow complementation by both to-infinitive clauses and that-clauses, based on the various syntactic and semantic manifestations of these two clause types and the adjectives that are complemented by them. READ MORE

4. 3. She likes doing what he likes to do - A corpus study of like and its complementation

   University essay from Institutionen för humaniora

   Author : Louise Eriksson; [2006]
   Keywords : corpus; verbal complement; meaning; verbs expressing emotions;

   Abstract : The following paper has been dedicated to the verb like, which is one of the verbs in the English language that can take either a to-infinitive or an -ing participle as a complement. The purpose of the paper is to examine if there are any differences in distribution and meaning between the two complements. READ MORE