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ITL - International Journal of Applied LinguisticsVol. 24 (1974) ► pp.19–58
A Frequency-List of Sentence Structures
Distribution of Kernel Sentences.
References
See D. GEENS 1973.
The sample consists of the first 500 sentences of the following plays A Taste of Honey (S. DELANEY), Spitting Image (C. SPENCER), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (E. ALBEE) [which is the only American English play in the corpus], The Dwarfs (H. PINTER), Belcher's Luck (D. MERCER), The Duel (I. DELL), Have You Any Dirty Washing, Mother Dear? (C. EXTON), Neighbours (I. SAUNDERS), A Night Out (H. PINTER), The Celebration (D. STOREY), The Apprentices (P. TERSON), Narrow Road to the Deep North (E. BOND), Hadrian VII (P. LUKE), A Slight Ache (EL PINTER), This Story of Yours (J. HOPKINS), The Au-Pair Man (H. LEONARD), Afore Night Come (D. RUDKIN), Under The Skin (K. ROSS), Look Back in Anger (J. OSBORNE), Mrs Mouse Are You Within? (F. MARCUS).
See D. GEENS 1972.
See N. CHOMSKY 1965, pp. 17-18. 
See O. THOMAS 1965, pp. 37-38.
See L.K. ENGELS 1970.
Bibliography
N. CHOMSKY
, Aspects of the Theory of Syntax, MIT-Press 1965
L.K. ENGELS
, Grammatica in het Vreemde-Talenonderwijs : Kernzinnen en Frequente Constructies, Revue des Langues Vivantes - Tijdschrift voor Levende Talen, XXXVI 1970, 5, 517-535.
D. GEENS
, Theoretical and Methodological Considerations on Automatic Syntactic Analysis, ITL 151 1972, 47-66.
O. THOMAS
, Transformational Grammar and the Teacher of English, Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1965.