Gill Francis

List of John Benjamins publications for which Gill Francis plays a role.

Titles

Pattern Grammar: A corpus-driven approach to the lexical grammar of English

Susan Hunston and Gill Francis

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 4] 2000. xiv, 288 pp.

Subjects Corpus linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics

Text and Technology: In honour of John Sinclair

Edited by Mona Baker, Gill Francis and Elena Tognini-Bonelli

[Not in series, 64] 1993. xii, 361 pp.

Subjects Discourse studies | Natural language processing | Pragmatics | Writing and literacy

Articles

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Francis, Gill 2015 Chapter 3. “Hugh’s across all that”: Some changing uses of prepositions Corpora, Grammar and Discourse: In honour of Susan Hunston, Groom, Nicholas, Maggie Charles and Suganthi John (eds.), pp. 73–96 | Article

This paper identifies some newly-increasing patterns of spatial prepositions, especially across, (all) over, on, around, and ahead of. It draws partly on data from the large general corpora of the 1990s and 2000s and partly on an informal collection of the language used ‘now’ (i.e. in the year… read more

Francis, Gill and Susan Hunston 2007 John McHardie Sinclair: 1933–2007 Functions of Language 14:2, pp. 173–176 | Miscellaneous

Clear, Jeremy, Gwyneth L. Fox, Gill Francis, Ramesh Krishnamurthy and Rosamund Moon 1996 Cobuild: The State of the Art International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 1:2, pp. 303–314 | Miscellaneous

Francis, Gill 1993 A Corpus-Driven Approach to Grammar — Principles, Methods and Examples Text and Technology: In honour of John Sinclair, Baker, Mona, Gill Francis and Elena Tognini-Bonelli (eds.), pp. 137 ff. | Article