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Publication details [#28786]

Luzón Marco, María José. 1999. Corpus analysis and pragmatics: A study of the negative structure fail to. ITL 123 - 124 : 37–55.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

corpus analysis | function | meaning | modality | verb

Place, Publisher

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

ISBN

0019-0810

Journal WWW

benjamins.com/catalog/itl

Annotation

This article employs the COBUILD corpus to examine the discursive function of the verbal structure 'FAIL TO' and the meaning it adds to the verbal construction where it appears.