nam a22 c 4500 scl.63/599012412 nljbp 250625080433.0 cr ||||||||||| 241211s2014 ne |||||||||||||||||eng|d 2014021646 9789027269744 (e-Book) nljbp eng nljbp nljbp PE1074.5 420.1/88 23 CFK bicssc LAN009000 bisacsh Corpus Interrogation and Grammatical Patterns Edited by Kristin Davidse, Caroline Gentens, Lobke Ghesquière and Lieven Vandelanotte Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014 ©2014 1 online resource (viii, 358 pp. ) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Studies in Corpus Linguistics 1388-0373 63 Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Interrogating corpora to describe grammatical patterns / Kristin Davidse, Lieven Vandelanotte, Caroline Gentens and Lobke Ghesquière -- Light verb constructions in the history 
of English / Patricia Ronan -- What happened to the English prefix, and could it stage a comeback? / Stefan Diemer -- The pattern to be a-hunting from Middle 
to Late Modern English / Manfred Markus -- The present perfect and the preterite in Late Modern and Contemporary English / Johan Elsness -- can and be able to in nineteenth-century Irish English / Marije van Hattum -- Syntactic constraints on the use of dual form intensifiers in Modern English / Günter Rohdenburg -- Ma daddy wis dead chuffed / Zeltia Blanco-Suárez -- The case of focus / Georg Maier -- Null objects and sentential complements, with evidence from the Corpus of Historical American English / Juhani Rudanko and Paul Rickman -- A new angle on infinitival and of -ing complements of afraid, with evidence 
from the TIME Corpus / Juhani Rudanko -- Active and passive infinitive, ambiguity and non-canonical subject with ready / Mikko Höglund -- The diffusion of English absolutes / Nikki van de Pol and Hubert Cuyckens -- It-clefts in English L1 and L2 academic writing / Hilde Hasselgård -- The speech functions of tag questions 
and their properties. A comparison of their distribution in COLT and LLC / Ditte Kimps, Kristin Davidse and Bert Cornillie The studies in this volume approach English grammatical patterns in novel ways by interrogating corpora, focusing on patterns in the verb phrase (tense, aspect and modality), the noun phrase (intensification and focus marking), complementation structures and clause combining. Some studies interrogate historical corpora to reconstruct the diachronic development of patterns such as light verb constructions, verb-particle combinations, the be a-verbing progressive and absolute constructions. Other studies analyse synchronic datasets to typify the functions in discourse of, amongst others, tag questions and it-clefts, or to elucidate some long-standing problems in the syntactic analysis of verbal or adjectival complementation patterns, thanks to the empirical detail only corpora can provide. The volume documents the practices that have been developed to guarantee optimal representativeness of corpus data, to formulate definitions of patterns that can be operationalized in extractions, and to build dimensions of variation such as text type and register into rich grammatical descriptions. Provided by publisher. Corpus linguistics Syntax Theoretical linguistics Davidse, Kristin editor Gentens, Caroline editor Ghesquière, Lobke editor Vandelanotte, Lieven editor Rompaey, Tinne Van author Hardbound version: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014 9789027203717 DOI https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.63 JB e-Platform https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027269744