Nice to Meet You or Nice Meeting You: Complementation Patterns of Emotive Adjectives

• Authors: Kaluga Michał

Abstracts

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.

Keywords

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Emotive adjectives; Complementation patterns; linguistics

• Publisher: Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw
• Journal: Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2018
• Issue: 27/2
• Pages: 47-58

Contributors

author

Kaluga Michał

• University of Warsaw

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