Solveig Granath

List of John Benjamins publications in which Solveig Granath is involved.

Articles

Granath, Solveig 2009 Who benefits from learning how to use corpora? Corpora and Language Teaching, Aijmer, Karin (ed.), pp. 47–65 | Article

Whereas researchers have long seen the benefits of using corpora to enhance the description of language, the regular use of corpora in the EFL classroom is still a rare occurrence. One reason is likely to be that learning how to use corpora is seldom part of teacher training courses. As a result,… read more

Wherrity, Michael P. and Solveig Granath 2008 Pressing -ing into service: I don't want you coming around here any more The Dynamics of Linguistic Variation: Corpus evidence on English past and present, Nevalainen, Terttu, Irma Taavitsainen, Päivi Pahta and Minna Korhonen (eds.), pp. 85–97 | Article

In this paper we focus on a common construction which has received relatively little attention to date in the literature, namely, want [NP Ving] as in I don’t want you coming around here anymore. Recent British newspaper corpora suggest that this construction is becoming increasingly popular among… read more