Perspectives on Complementation

Höglund, Mikko; Rickman, Paul; Rudanko, Juhani; Havu, Jukka

doi:10.1057/9781137450067

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Anglicising Finnish complementation? Examining the rakastan puhua (‘I love to speak’) structure in present-day Finnish

Hietaranta

2018

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The paper addresses the question as to whether the complementation system of Finnish is currently undergoing a change which will ultimately lead to Finnish syntax recognising rakastan puhua (‘I love to talk/speak’) as a valid instantiation of the syntactic structure in question in addition to the traditional construction rakastan puhumista (‘I love talking/speaking’). At present, the former type is distinctly a marked type of expression whereas the latter variant is equally unmarked. The paper argues that while the emergence of the new type in Finnish may be attributable to the influence of the corresponding infinitival construction in English via translation, this is so only to some extent, and that the change Finnish syntax is undergoing in this respect is mainly due to some sociolinguistic and ideological considerations whereby users of the construction can identify themselves as belonging to certain subcultures or subgroups of speakers.

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Finite and non‐finite complement clauses in postcolonial Englishes

García-Castro

2020

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This paper explores the variability between finite and non‐finite complement clauses (CCs) after remember meaning ‘recall,’ looking at three postcolonial Englishes (PCEs), Indian, English and Sri Lankan Englishes, and British English as represented in the Corpus of Global Web‐based English (GloWbE). Taking a holistic approach, it examines the distribution and the potential language‐external and internal factors which may cause divergence between L1 and L2 varieties. Language‐external factors, such as innovation, language contact and second‐language (SLA) acquisition processes (Schneider, 2007: 88), appear to prompt the greater proportion of finite complement clauses found in the postcolonial Englishes, as expected based on the alleged tendency towards simplification of these varieties (Williams, 1987). However, the binary logistic regression analyses of language‐internal variables, largely related to the complexity principle (Rohdenburg, 1996, 2006), reveal that common language‐internal factors, apart from variety of English, also condition the choice of complement clause in the four varieties.

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Perspectives on Complementation

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Anglicising Finnish complementation? Examining the rakastan puhua (‘I love to speak’) structure in present-day Finnish

Finite and non‐finite complement clauses in postcolonial Englishes

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