Infinitives and Gerunds in Recent English; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Corpora; List of Tables; 1 Introduction; Notes; 2 Non-Finite Complements of the Verb Consent in Current American and British English; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Subject Control Complements of the Verb Consent in American and British English; 2.3 Accounting for Grammatical Variation with the Verb Consent in Current American and British English; 2.4 Concluding Observations; Notes; 3 Non-Finite Complements of the Adjective Subject in Recent American English; 3.1 Introduction.

3.2 Non-Finite Complements of the Adjective Subject in COHA3.3 Concluding Observations; Note; 4 The Semantics of to Infinitives and of -ing Complements: A Case Study on the Adjective Ashamed; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The Choice Principle and Non-Finite Complements of Ashamed; 4.3 Concluding Observations; Notes; 5 Lexico-Grammatical Creativity in American Soap Operas: A Case Study of the Transitive into -ing Pattern; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 The Creativity of the Transitive into -ing Pattern: a Framework and Illustrations; 5.3 On the Semantics of Creative Uses of the Transitive into -ing Pattern.

5.4 Concluding Observations6 Concluding Observations; References; Index.