Corpus Interrogation And Grammatical Patterns (studies In Corpus Linguistics)
by Lieven Vandelanotte /
2014 / English / PDF
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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
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, thebe
a-verbing
be
a-verbing progressive and absolute constructions. Other studies
analyse synchronic datasets to typify the functions in discourse
of, amongst others, tag questions and
progressive and absolute constructions. Other studies
analyse synchronic datasets to typify the functions in discourse
of, amongst others, tag questions andit
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.
-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.