Ilka Mindt. Adjective Complementation: An Empirical Analysis of Adjectives followed by That-Clauses [Studies in Corpus Linguistics 42]. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2011. ISBN 978-90-2722-318-0 vii + 238 pp.

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An Van linden | University of Leuven & Research Foundation Flanders – FWO

Published online: 3 November 2014

https://doi.org/10.1075/etc.7.2.07lin

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Ilka Mindt. Adjective Complementation: An Empirical Analysis of Adjectives followed by That-Clauses [Studies in Corpus Linguistics 42]. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2011. ISBN 978-90-2722-318-0 vii + 238 pp.

Ilka Mindt. Adjective Complementation: An Empirical Analysis of Adjectives followed by That-Clauses [Studies in Corpus Linguistics 42]. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2011. ISBN 978-90-2722-318-0 vii + 238 pp.