In:Corpus Interrogation and Grammatical Patterns
Edited by Kristin Davidse, Caroline Gentens, Lobke Ghesquière and Lieven Vandelanotte
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 63] 2014
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 14 November 2014
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.63.toc
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Table of contents
Acknowledgements
List of contributors
Interrogating corpora to describe grammatical patterns
Part 1. Patterns in the verb phrase
Light verb constructions in the history
of English
What happened to the English prefix, and could it stage a comeback?
The pattern to be a-hunting from Middle
to Late Modern English: Towards extrapolating from Wright’s English
Dialect Dictionary
The present perfect and the preterite in Late Modern and Contemporary English: A longitudinal look
can and be able to in nineteenth-century Irish English: A case of ‘imperfect learning’?
Part 2. Patterns in the noun phrase
Syntactic constraints on the use of dual form intensifiers in Modern English
Ma daddy wis dead chuffed: On the dialectal distribution of the intensifier dead in Contemporary English
The case of focus
Part 3. Patterns in complementation structures
Null objects and sentential complements, with evidence from the Corpus of Historical American English
A new angle on infinitival and of -ing complements of afraid, with evidence
from the TIME Corpus
Active and passive infinitive, ambiguity and non-canonical subject with ready
Part 4. Patterns of clause combining
The diffusion of English absolutes: A diachronic register study
It-clefts in English L1 and L2 academic writing: The case of Norwegian learners
The speech functions of tag questions
and their properties. A comparison of their distribution in COLT and LLC
Author index
Subject index
