Christopher Shank

List of John Benjamins publications for which Christopher Shank plays a role.

Articles

Shank, Christopher, Koen Plevoets and Julie Van Bogaert 2016 A multifactorial analysis of that/zero alternation: The diachronic development of the zero complementizer with think, guess and understandCorpus-based Approaches to Construction Grammar, Yoon, Jiyoung and Stefan Th. Gries (eds.), pp. 201–240 | Article
This corpus-based study uses a stepwise logistic regression analysis to examine the diachronic development of that/zero alternation with three verbs of cognition, viz. think, guess and understand in both spoken and written corpora from 1560–2012. Eleven structural features which have been claimed… read more
Shank, Christopher, Koen Plevoets and Hubert Cuyckens 2014 A diachronic corpus-based multivariate analysis of “I think that” vs. “I think zero”Corpus Methods for Semantics: Quantitative studies in polysemy and synonymy, Glynn, Dylan and Justyna A. Robinson (eds.), pp. 279–303 | Article
This corpus-driven study seeks to explain the choice between the zero complement and the that complement constructions, when occurring with the mental state predicate think. Previous studies have identified a range of factors that are argued to explain the alternation patterns. Such studies have… read more
John-Steiner, Vera, Christopher Shank and Teresa Meehan 2005 7. The role of metaphor in the narrative co-construction of collaborative experienceNarrative Interaction, Quasthoff, Uta M. and Tabea Becker (eds.), pp. 169–195 | Chapter