Gill Francis

List of John Benjamins publications in which Gill Francis is involved.

Titles

Pattern Grammar: A corpus-driven approach to the lexical grammar of English

Susan Hunston and Gill Francis

This book describes an approach to lexis and grammar based on the concept of phraseology and of language patterning arising from work on large corpora. The notion of 'pattern' as a systematic way of dealing with the interface between lexis and grammar was used in Collins Cobuild English Dictionary… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 4] 2000. xiv, 288 pp.

Text and Technology: In honour of John Sinclair

Edited by Mona Baker, Gill Francis and Elena Tognini-Bonelli

Text and Technology focuses on three major areas of modern linguistics: discourse analysis, corpus-driven analysis of language, and computational linguistics. The volume starts off with a description of the various British traditions in text analysis by Michael Stubbs. The first section “Spoken and… read more

[Not in series, 64] 1993. xii, 361 pp.

Articles (4) | Order by:

Francis, Gill 2015 Chapter 3. “Hugh’s across all that”: Some changing uses of prepositions Corpora, Grammar and Discourse: In honour of Susan Hunston, Groom, Nicholas, Maggie Charles and Suganthi John (eds.), pp. 73–96 | Article

This paper identifies some newly-increasing patterns of spatial prepositions, especially across, (all) over, on, around, and ahead of. It draws partly on data from the large general corpora of the 1990s and 2000s and partly on an informal collection of the language used ‘now’ (i.e. in the year… read more

Francis, Gill and Susan Hunston 2007 John McHardie Sinclair: 1933–2007 Functions of Language 14:2, pp. 173–176 | Miscellaneous

Clear, Jeremy, Gwyneth L. Fox, Gill Francis, Ramesh Krishnamurthy and Rosamund Moon 1996 Cobuild: The State of the Art International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 1:2, pp. 303–314 | Miscellaneous

Francis, Gill 1993 A Corpus-Driven Approach to Grammar — Principles, Methods and Examples Text and Technology: In honour of John Sinclair, Baker, Mona, Gill Francis and Elena Tognini-Bonelli (eds.), pp. 137–156 | Article