"Infinitives and Gerunds in Recent English: Studies on Non-Finite Complements with Data from Large Corpora" von Juhani Rudanko untersucht die Verwendung und Entwicklung von Infinitiven und Gerundien im modernen Englisch. Mithilfe...

While earlier treatments of English verb syntax from a diachronic perspective exist, this book breaks entirely fresh ground with its focus on the detailed study of English predicate complementation over the past three centuries. It draws...