Table of contents
Acknowledgementsix
Introduction
1. The attention they have been getting
2. The corpus linguistic point of view
3. Minimal assumptions in practice: interpreting corpus data
4. Time nouns
5. People Nouns
6. World nouns
7. Re-examining the minimal assumptions
8. Developing the corpus linguistic theory
Appendix 1: Pattern codes195
Appendix 2: `Longer examples in Chapter 5'196
References
Index
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