The studies in this volume approach English grammatical patterns in novel ways by interrogating corpora, focusing on patterns in the verb phrase (tense, aspect

This article proposes a classification of speech functions of variable tag questions in British English conversations. Based on intonational, conversational and

This book showcases fresh research into the underexplored territory of complementation through a detailed analysis of gerunds and ‘to’ infinitives involving

The papers in this volume cover a wide range of interrelated syntactic phenomena, from the history of core arguments, to complements and non-finite clauses, ele

This book explores the concept of complementation in the adjectival domain of English grammar. Alternation between non-finite complements, especially to infinit