Abstract
Chapter 2 investigates the applicability of the [+/−Choice] criterion in the interpretation of lower predicates and their subjects as a factor impacting the variation between to infinitival and to -ing complements of the adjective accustomed in five decades of the Corpus of Historical American English, COHA. The text type of Fiction is seen to offer considerable variation involving the two types of constructions, and it is argued that the criterion is of significance during the period of major variation between the two patterns of complementation.
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