Stephen Coffey
List of John Benjamins publications for which Stephen Coffey plays a role.
Articles
2013 Sequences of size adjectives in text: Great big, tiny little, and less frequent combinations Corpus Perspectives on Patterns of Lexis, Hasselgård, Hilde, Jarle Ebeling and Signe Oksefjell Ebeling (eds.), pp. 47–68 | Article
This paper reports on a study of attributive adjective sequences belonging to the semantic field of size, examples of which are ‘enormous great’ and ‘wee little’. It takes as its starting point a brief outline of the phenomenon provided by the Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (Huddleston &… read more
1999 Idiom variation in Italian and English: Two corpus-based studies Languages in Contrast 2:2, pp. 279–300 | Article
This article reports on two parallel but independent studies of idiom variation in corpora — one of Italian and one of English. In the Italian study, 324 idiomatic expressions were looked for in a corpus of 16 million words, while the English study investigated more than 2,800 idioms in an… read more