Corpus perspectives on patterns of lexis / / Edited by Hilde Hasselgård, Jarle Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell Ebeling, University of Oslo

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910792146703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam : , : John Benjamins Pub. Company, , 2013
• ISBN: 90-272-7191-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (307 p.)
• Collana: Studies in corpus linguistics ; ; 57; Studies in corpus linguistics ; ; v. 57
• Altri autori (Persone): HasselgårdHilde
• Disciplina: 420.1; 420.1/4
• Soggetti: Corpora (Linguistics); Lexicology; Lexical phonology; Grammaticality (Linguistics); Linguistic analysis (Linguistics)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 dictionaries4. 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 V27. 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 1990's 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; References; Primary electronic sources
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 exploring quantity approximation in various business genres using a contrastive, corpus-driven approach (in Dutch, English and French). The paper sheds light on the advantages and disadvantages of using annotated corpora (part-of-speech and semantic tagging) and automatically extracted word lists for onomasiologic