A Frequency-List of Sentence Structures: Distribution of Kernel Sentences.

Geens, Dirk

doi:10.1075/itl.24.02gee

Article published In: ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics
Vol. 24 (1974) ► pp.19–58

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A Frequency-List of Sentence Structures

Distribution of Kernel Sentences.

Dirk Geens | Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven

Published online: 1 January 1974

https://doi.org/10.1075/itl.24.02gee

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See D. GEENS, 1973.

The sample consists of the first 500 sentences of the following plays : A Taste of Honey (S. DELANEY), Spitting Image (C. SPENCER), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (E. ALBEE) [which is the only American English play in the corpus], The Dwarfs (H. PINTER), Belcher's Luck (D. MERCER), The Duel (I. DELL), Have You Any Dirty Washing, Mother Dear? (C. EXTON), Neighbours (I. SAUNDERS), A Night Out (H. PINTER), The Celebration (D. STOREY), The Apprentices (P. TERSON), Narrow Road to the Deep North (E. BOND), Hadrian VII (P. LUKE), A Slight Ache (EL PINTER), This Story of Yours (J. HOPKINS), The Au-Pair Man (H. LEONARD), Afore Night Come (D. RUDKIN), Under The Skin (K. ROSS), Look Back in Anger (J. OSBORNE), Mrs Mouse Are You Within? (F. MARCUS).

See D. GEENS, 1972.

See N. CHOMSKY, 1965, pp. 17-18.

See O. THOMAS, 1965, pp. 37-38.

See L.K. ENGELS, 1970.

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N. CHOMSKY, Aspects of the Theory of Syntax, MIT-Press, 1965.

L.K. ENGELS, Grammatica in het Vreemde-Talenonderwijs : Kernzinnen en Frequente Constructies, Revue des Langues Vivantes - Tijdschrift voor Levende Talen, XXXVI, 1970, 5, 517-535.

D. GEENS, Theoretical and Methodological Considerations on Automatic Syntactic Analysis, ITL 151, 1972, 47-66.

, A Frequency-List of Sentence Structures : Preliminary Considerations, ITL 211, 1973, 39-55.

O. THOMAS, Transformational Grammar and the Teacher of English, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1965.