Corpus Interrogation and Grammatical Patterns
Editors
The studies in this volume approach English grammatical patterns in novel ways by interrogating corpora, focusing on patterns in the verb phrase (tense, aspect and modality), the noun phrase (intensification and focus marking), complementation structures and clause combining. Some studies interrogate historical corpora to reconstruct the diachronic development of patterns such as light verb constructions, verb-particle combinations, the be a-verbing progressive and absolute constructions. Other studies analyse synchronic datasets to typify the functions in discourse of, amongst others, tag questions and it-clefts, or to elucidate some long-standing problems in the syntactic analysis of verbal or adjectival complementation patterns, thanks to the empirical detail only corpora can provide. The volume documents the practices that have been developed to guarantee optimal representativeness of corpus data, to formulate definitions of patterns that can be operationalized in extractions, and to build dimensions of variation such as text type and register into rich grammatical descriptions.
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 63] 2014. viii, 358 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements | pp. vii–viii
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List of contributors | pp. ix–x
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Interrogating corpora to describe grammatical patternsKristin Davidse, Lieven Vandelanotte, Caroline Gentens and Lobke Ghesquière | pp. 1–11
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Part 1. Patterns in the verb phrase
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Light verb constructions in the history of EnglishPatricia Ronan | pp. 15–34
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What happened to the English prefix, and could it stage a comeback?Stefan Diemer | pp. 35–55
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The pattern to be a-hunting from Middle to Late Modern English: Towards extrapolating from Wright’s English Dialect DictionaryManfred Markus | pp. 57–80
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The present perfect and the preterite in Late Modern and Contemporary English: A longitudinal lookJohan Elsness | pp. 81–103
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can and be able to in nineteenth-century Irish English: A case of ‘imperfect learning’?Marije van Hattum | pp. 105–128
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Part 2. Patterns in the noun phrase
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Syntactic constraints on the use of dual form intensifiers in Modern EnglishGünter Rohdenburg | pp. 131–149
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Ma daddy wis dead chuffed: On the dialectal distribution of the intensifier dead in Contemporary EnglishZeltia Blanco-Suárez | pp. 151–171
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The case of focusGeorg Maier | pp. 173–205
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Part 3. Patterns in complementation structures
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Null objects and sentential complements, with evidence from the Corpus of Historical American EnglishJuhani Rudanko and Paul Rickman | pp. 209–221
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A new angle on infinitival and of -ing complements of afraid, with evidence from the TIME CorpusJuhani Rudanko | pp. 223–238
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Active and passive infinitive, ambiguity and non-canonical subject with readyMikko Höglund | pp. 239–262
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Part 4. Patterns of clause combining
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The diffusion of English absolutes: A diachronic register studyNikki van de Pol and Hubert Cuyckens | pp. 265–294
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It-clefts in English L1 and L2 academic writing: The case of Norwegian learnersHilde Hasselgård | pp. 295–319
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The speech functions of tag questions and their properties. A comparison of their distribution in COLT and LLCDitte Kimps, Kristin Davidse and Bert Cornillie | pp. 321–350
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Author index | pp. 351–354
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Subject index | pp. 355–358
Cited by (5)
Cited by five other publications
Martínez, Brandon Joseph
Saad, Sihem Ben
Paquot, Magali, Tove Larsson, Hilde Hasselgård, Signe O. Ebeling, Damien De Meyere, Larry Valentin, Natalia J. Laso, Isabel Verdaguer & Sanne van Vuuren
Vandelanotte, Lieven
Van Rompaey, Tinne, Kristin Davidse & Peter Petré
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFK: Grammar, syntax
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General