@article{Romasanta_2022, title={“I Regret Lying" vs. “I Regret that I Lied": Variation in the Clausal Complementation Profile of REGRET in American and British English}, volume={65}, url={https://papiro.unizar.es/ojs/index.php/misc/article/view/6828}, DOI={10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20226828}, abstractNote={<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The historical development and change of the English complementation system has received a great deal of attention in recent years, but work remains to be done on Present-day English. Previous studies on the complement-taking predicate </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">regret</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> have shown that in British English the choice between a </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">that</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">-clause and the gerundial -</span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">ing</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is non-categorical or probabilistic, with the speaker being able to choose between them. This non-categorical variation is the focus of the present article, which aims to identify any existing differences in the clausal complementation profile of </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">regret</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in British and American English, as well as any linguistic variables that might determine speaker choice.</span></p>}, journal={Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies}, author={Romasanta, Raquel P.}, year={2022}, month={Jun.}, pages={37–58} }