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Corpus perspectives on patterns of lexis /
This paper sets out to explore and evaluate several corpus search methods that are applied to uncover linguistic devices expressing 'quantity approximation' in a corpus of business English from an onomasiological perspective. The study is carried out within the framework of a project explo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
John Benjamins Pub. Company,
2013.
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| Colección: | Studies in corpus linguistics ;
v. 57. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Corpus Perspectives on Patterns of Lexis; Editorial page ; Title page ; LCC page ; Table of contents; List of contributors ; Introduction ; References ; Sequence and order; Sequence and order ; 1. The neo-Firthian tradition ; 2. Sequence and order ; 3. An example: The went-and-verbed sequence ; 4. Induction? ; 5. Sinclair's model of units of meaning ; 6. Research problems: Lexis and text ; 7. Sinclair and Searle ; 8. Concluding comments ; Acknowledgements ; References ; Mom and Dad but Men and Women ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Gendered nouns that are rarely or never paired.
- 3. The preferred sequencing of the actualized pairs 3.1 The metrical constraint ; 3.2 Deficiencies of the power constraint as the first or second constraint ; 3.3 The family relationship constraint ; 3.4 The problems with frequency as an overriding constraint ; 3.5 The power constraint as the third constraint ; 3.6 The odd case of witches and warlocks ; 4. Conclusion ; Corpus ; References ; Sequences of size adjectives in text ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Aims of the present study ; 2.1 Presentation of data ; 3. Adjectives of size ; 3.1 What type of size, and what type of adjective?
- 4. Sequences of big adjectives: Corpus findings 4.1 "Great big" ; 5. Sequences of small adjectives: Corpus findings ; 5.1 "little tiny" and "tiny little" ; 6. Adjective sequences with intervening commas ; 7. Size adjectives: Summary and further discussion ; 7.1 General characteristics of size adjective sequences ; 7.2 Intensification ; 8. Adjectives from other semantic fields: An exploratory study ; 9. Conclusions ; References ; Competing constructions; The competition between the intensifiers dead and deadly ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Sources of evidence.
- 3. A first approach: Evidence from historical dictionaries 4. Analysis and discussion of the data ; 4.1 Introductory remarks ; 4.2 The subjectification and grammaticalisation of dead and deadly: Evidence from the databases ; 4.3 The competition between dead and deadly in the databases ; 5. Conclusions ; References ; Sources of material ; Has go-V ousted go-and-V? ; 1. Introduction and research aim ; 2. Literature review ; 3. Methodological aspects ; 4. The diachronic development of go-V and go-and-V in general ; 5. The development of go-V and go-and-V: Focus on grammatical context.
- 6. Analysing meaning developments: The problem of identifying and limiting V2 7. Brief discussion of results ; 8. Outlook ; References ; The construction cannot help -ing and its rivals in Modern English ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Major Developments and Resulting Regional Contrasts ; 2.1 A General Overview Using the OED Quotations Database ; 2.2 Early contrasts between British and American English ; 2.3 The situation in the 1990s and beyond ; 3. Distributional constraints ; 3.1 Genre and medium ; 3.2 Differential degrees of lexical diversity ; 3.3 Basic and non-basic structures ; 4. Conclusion.