Nice to Meet You or Nice Meeting You: Complementation Patterns of Emotive Adjectives
Journal Title: Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies - Year 2018, Vol 27, Issue 2
Abstract
The current paper investigates the plausibility of the claim that the complementation patterns of an adjective can resemble that of a verb as well as its compliance with the rules of Present-Day English. The results of the research suggest that, as long noted in the case with verbs, the gerund complement is diff using over the to-infinitive in regressive contexts. The study also reveals additional factors which might infl uence a speaker’s choice of the respective complement type.
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Michał Kaluga
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- DOI 10.7311/0860-5734.27.2.03
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