Solveig Granath
List of John Benjamins publications for which Solveig Granath plays a role.
Articles
2009 Who benefits from learning how to use corpora? Corpora and Language Teaching, Aijmer, Karin (ed.), pp. 47–65 | Article
Whereas researchers have long seen the benefits of using corpora to enhance the description of language, the regular use of corpora in the EFL classroom is still a rare occurrence. One reason is likely to be that learning how to use corpora is seldom part of teacher training courses. As a result,… read more
2008 Pressing -ing into service: I don't want you coming around here any more The Dynamics of Linguistic Variation: Corpus evidence on English past and present, Nevalainen, Terttu, Irma Taavitsainen, Päivi Pahta and Minna Korhonen (eds.), pp. 85–97 | Article
In this paper we focus on a common construction which has received relatively little attention to date in the literature, namely, want [NP Ving] as in I don’t want you coming around here anymore. Recent British newspaper corpora suggest that this construction is becoming increasingly popular among… read more