“She likes to learn/learning English…On subjectless nonfinite clauses as monotransitive variants of verbal complements in Philippine English” (original) (raw)

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DESCRIPTION Studies on Philippine English have typically focused on the different aspects of its grammar. However, subjectless nonfinite clauses as verbal complements have not been investigated yet. This paper scrutinizes subjectless non-finite clauses as monotransitive variants of verbal complements in PhilE complementation based on Quirk, Greenbaum, Leech, and Svartvik (1985). Accordingly, this paper will focus on “to-infinitive” and “-ing participial” constructions as two frequent nonfinite clauses in examining PhilE monotransitive verbal complementation. The present study takes a corpus-based approach in analyzing a large collection of spoken and written texts of ICE-PHI corpus. Considering the three verb classes that both use the “to-infinitive” and “–ing participial” construction, the study reveals some deviations (which can be considered unique) from Quirk et.al’s description of verbal complements specifically on how Filipinos utilize retrospective verbs in both spoken and wr...

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