Elina Sellgren

List of John Benjamins publications in which Elina Sellgren is involved.

Article

Sellgren, Elina 2010 Prevent and the battle of the -ing clauses: Semantic divergence? English Historical Linguistics 2008: Selected papers from the fifteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 15), Munich, 24-30 August 2008., Lenker, Ursula, Judith Huber and Robert Mailhammer (eds.), pp. 45–62 | Chapter

The article discusses the variation between the two most common sentential complements of the verb prevent, as in prevent me from going and prevent me going, from a semantic point of view. The variant me going became significantly more common in British English in the twentieth century, competing… read more