Corpus Interrogation and Grammatical Patterns

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-272-0371-7
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, Band 63, 358 Seiten, Gewicht: 810 g

Reihe: Studies in Corpus Linguistics

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davidse, Kristin

Gentens, Caroline

Ghesquière, Lobke

Vandelanotte, Lieven

Weitere Mitwirkende

Rompaey, Tinne Van

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Theoretische Linguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Computerlinguistik, Korpuslinguistik