Non-finite Verb Phrases as Verb Complements

This bachelor thesis deals with non-finite verb phrases as verb complements. Non-finite complementation can be done by bare infinitive, past participle, to-infinitive and gerund. It depends on preceding verb what non-finite complementation to use. My bachelor thesis focuses on verbs which can be followed by either to-infinitive or gerund, with or without change in meaning. Using British National Corpus and Corpus of Contemporary American English, it finds out the frequencies of to-infinitive or gerund non-finite complementation.