by Juhani Rudanko (Author), Lea Luodes (Author)
Complementation in British and American English applies a new empirical methodology to the study of the English language. It focuses on predicate complementation as a core area of English grammar on the basis of the Bank of English Corpus. At over 600 million words, this electronic corpus is the largest systematic corpus of the language in existence today.
Author Biography
Juhani Rudanko is Professor of English in the Department of English at the University of Tampere, Finland. His earlier publications include Prepositions and Complement Clauses (1996) and Corpora and Complementation (University Press of America, 2000). Lea Luodes is a graduate of the University of Tampere, Finland, where she is currently an assistant in the Department of German. Her field of specialization is the use of electronic corpora in the study of language.