Project Details
Key findings
This project was an investigation into English verbs which take non-finite clausal complements and their history. I developed a non-derivational, declarative theory of argument linking and explored its consequences for various related well-known problems in the history of English syntax.
| Status | Finished |
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| Effective start/end date | 1/09/07 → 30/04/08 |
Funding
- AHRC: £31,033.00
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Grammaticalization and Construction Grammar
Gisborne, N. & Patten, A., 13 Oct 2011, The Oxford Handbook of Grammaticalization. Narrog, H. & Heine, B. (eds.). Oxford University Press, (Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
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Constructions, Word Grammar, and grammaticalization
Gisborne, N., 1 Feb 2011, In: Cognitive Linguistics. 22, 1, p. 155-182 27 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Dependencies are constructions: A case study in predicative complementation
Gisborne, N., 2008, Constructional Approaches to English Grammar. Trousdale, G. & Gisborne, N. (eds.). De Gruyter Mouton, p. 219-255 36 p. (Topics in English Linguistics ; vol. 57).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter