Christopher Shank
List of John Benjamins publications in which Christopher Shank is involved.
Articles
2016 A multifactorial analysis of that/ zero alternation: The diachronic development of the zero complementizer with think, guess and understand Corpus-based Approaches to Construction Grammar, Yoon, Jiyoung and Stefan Th. Gries (eds.), pp. 201–240 | Article
This corpus-based study uses a stepwise logistic regression analysis to examine
the diachronic development of that/zero alternation with three verbs of cognition,
viz. think, guess and understand in both spoken and written corpora from
1560–2012. Eleven structural features which have been claimed… read more
2014 A diachronic corpus-based multivariate analysis of “I think that” vs. “I think zero” Corpus Methods for Semantics: Quantitative studies in polysemy and synonymy, Glynn, Dylan and Justyna A. Robinson (eds.), pp. 279–303 | Article
This corpus-driven study seeks to explain the choice between the zero complement and the that complement constructions, when occurring with the mental state predicate think. Previous studies have identified a range of factors that are argued to explain the alternation patterns. Such studies have… read more
2005 7. The role of metaphor in the narrative co-construction of collaborative experience Narrative Interaction, Quasthoff, Uta M. and Tabea Becker (eds.), pp. 169–195 | Chapter