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Publication details [#27040]

Sinclair, John McH. and Gill Francis. 1994. 'I bet he drinks Carling Black Label': A riposte to Owen on corpus grammar. Applied Linguistics 15 (2) : 190–200.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

corpus analysis | ergative | grammar1 | meaning | verb

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

ISBN

0142-6001

Journal WWW

http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

This paper challenges Owen's critique on the role of a corpus in the pedagogical Collins Cobuild English grammar, arguing that a corpus remains a unique means of showing the interdependence of grammar and meaning, as illustrated with regard to the discussion of ergative verbs.