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The clausal complementation of good in extraposition constructions: The emergence of partially filled constructions
Van linden, An
2010In Lenker, Ursula; Huber, Judith; Mailhammer, Robert (Eds.) English Historical Linguistics 2008: Selected papers from the Fifteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 15), Munich, 24-30 August 2008; Volume I: The history of English verbal and nominal constructions
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Abstract :
[en] This article develops a functional synchronic-diachronic description of the clausal complement patterns found with good in extraposition constructions (ECs), and compares these to the patterns found with other deontic-evaluative adjectives, such as appropriate, important and fitting. The adjectives studied can currently take either mandative complements expressing desired action, or propositional complements describing arguable claims. Good differs from adjectives such as appropriate and important in that it currently favours propositional to-clauses. More specifically, I will argue that it occurs in two types of partially filled constructions in the sense of Goldberg (1995) featuring such complements, viz. the locative pattern and the knowledge/acquisition of knowledge (KAK) pattern. The diachronic data will reveal that good started to prefer propositional to-clauses only recently, amongst others through the emergence of the KAK pattern in Late Modern English and its subsequent rise in frequency. In addition, the present-day occurrence of purely evaluative adjectives like nice and great in the locative and KAK constructions suggests that analogy with this class of adjectives may have played a role as well.
Disciplines :
Languages & linguistics
Author, co-author :
Van linden, An  ;  Katholieke Universiteit Leuven - KUL
Language :
English
Title :
The clausal complementation of good in extraposition constructions: The emergence of partially filled constructions
Publication date :
2010
Main work title :
English Historical Linguistics 2008: Selected papers from the Fifteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 15), Munich, 24-30 August 2008; Volume I: The history of English verbal and nominal constructions
Editor :
Lenker, Ursula
Huber, Judith
Mailhammer, Robert
Publisher :
John Benjamins Publishing, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Collection name :
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 314
Pages :
95–120
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
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