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Corpora and lexis [[e-book] /] / edited by Sebastian Hoffmann, Andrea Sand, Sabine Arndt-Lappe, Lisa Marie Dillmann
| Corpora and lexis [[e-book] /] / edited by Sebastian Hoffmann, Andrea Sand, Sabine Arndt-Lappe, Lisa Marie Dillmann |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2018 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (322 pages) |
| Disciplina | 420.1/88 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
HoffmannSebastian
SandAndrea Arndt-LappeSabine DillmannLisa Marie |
| Collana | Language and computers: studies in digital linguistics |
| Soggetto topico |
English language - Grammar - Data processing
English language - Discourse analysis - Data processing - Congresses Computational linguistics |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 90-04-36113-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction / Sebastian Hoffmann , Andrea Sand , Sabine Arndt-Lappe and Lisa Marie Dillmann -- Modelling Lexical Structures in the Oxford English Dictionary / Edmund Weiner -- Investigating the Circumstances of Coinage / Antoinette Renouf -- Synonym Selection as a Strategy of Stress Clash Avoidance / Julia Schlüter and Gabriele Knappe -- Intensification with Very, Really and So in Selected Varieties of English / Karin Aijmer -- The Pragmatics of Well as a Discourse Marker in Broadcast Discussions / John M. Kirk -- Between Lexis and Discourse: A Cross-register Study of Connectors of Contrast / Maïté Dupont -- Towards a Model of Co-collocation Analysis: Theory, Methodology, and Preliminary Results / Moisés Almela and Pascual Cantos -- The Lexicogrammar of Be Interested: Description and Pedagogy / Costas Gabrielatos -- Tracking L2 Writers’ Phraseological Development Using Collgrams: Evidence from a Longitudinal EFL Corpus / Yves Bestgen and Sylviane Granger. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910511729103321 |
| Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2018 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Corpora and lexis [[e-book] /] / edited by Sebastian Hoffmann, Andrea Sand, Sabine Arndt-Lappe, Lisa Marie Dillmann
| Corpora and lexis [[e-book] /] / edited by Sebastian Hoffmann, Andrea Sand, Sabine Arndt-Lappe, Lisa Marie Dillmann |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2018 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (322 pages) |
| Disciplina | 420.1/88 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
HoffmannSebastian
SandAndrea Arndt-LappeSabine DillmannLisa Marie |
| Collana | Language and computers: studies in digital linguistics |
| Soggetto topico |
English language - Grammar - Data processing
English language - Discourse analysis - Data processing - Congresses Computational linguistics |
| ISBN | 90-04-36113-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction / Sebastian Hoffmann , Andrea Sand , Sabine Arndt-Lappe and Lisa Marie Dillmann -- Modelling Lexical Structures in the Oxford English Dictionary / Edmund Weiner -- Investigating the Circumstances of Coinage / Antoinette Renouf -- Synonym Selection as a Strategy of Stress Clash Avoidance / Julia Schlüter and Gabriele Knappe -- Intensification with Very, Really and So in Selected Varieties of English / Karin Aijmer -- The Pragmatics of Well as a Discourse Marker in Broadcast Discussions / John M. Kirk -- Between Lexis and Discourse: A Cross-register Study of Connectors of Contrast / Maïté Dupont -- Towards a Model of Co-collocation Analysis: Theory, Methodology, and Preliminary Results / Moisés Almela and Pascual Cantos -- The Lexicogrammar of Be Interested: Description and Pedagogy / Costas Gabrielatos -- Tracking L2 Writers’ Phraseological Development Using Collgrams: Evidence from a Longitudinal EFL Corpus / Yves Bestgen and Sylviane Granger. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910796762603321 |
| Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2018 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Corpora and lexis [[e-book] /] / edited by Sebastian Hoffmann, Andrea Sand, Sabine Arndt-Lappe, Lisa Marie Dillmann
| Corpora and lexis [[e-book] /] / edited by Sebastian Hoffmann, Andrea Sand, Sabine Arndt-Lappe, Lisa Marie Dillmann |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2018 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (322 pages) |
| Disciplina | 420.1/88 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
HoffmannSebastian
SandAndrea Arndt-LappeSabine DillmannLisa Marie |
| Collana | Language and computers: studies in digital linguistics |
| Soggetto topico |
English language - Grammar - Data processing
English language - Discourse analysis - Data processing - Congresses Computational linguistics |
| ISBN | 90-04-36113-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction / Sebastian Hoffmann , Andrea Sand , Sabine Arndt-Lappe and Lisa Marie Dillmann -- Modelling Lexical Structures in the Oxford English Dictionary / Edmund Weiner -- Investigating the Circumstances of Coinage / Antoinette Renouf -- Synonym Selection as a Strategy of Stress Clash Avoidance / Julia Schlüter and Gabriele Knappe -- Intensification with Very, Really and So in Selected Varieties of English / Karin Aijmer -- The Pragmatics of Well as a Discourse Marker in Broadcast Discussions / John M. Kirk -- Between Lexis and Discourse: A Cross-register Study of Connectors of Contrast / Maïté Dupont -- Towards a Model of Co-collocation Analysis: Theory, Methodology, and Preliminary Results / Moisés Almela and Pascual Cantos -- The Lexicogrammar of Be Interested: Description and Pedagogy / Costas Gabrielatos -- Tracking L2 Writers’ Phraseological Development Using Collgrams: Evidence from a Longitudinal EFL Corpus / Yves Bestgen and Sylviane Granger. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820062003321 |
| Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2018 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Corpora and the changing society : studies in the evolution of English / / edited by Paula Rautionaho, Arja Nurmi, Juhani Klemola
| Corpora and the changing society : studies in the evolution of English / / edited by Paula Rautionaho, Arja Nurmi, Juhani Klemola |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2020] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (319 pages) |
| Disciplina | 420.9 |
| Collana | Studies in corpus linguistics |
| Soggetto topico |
English language - Grammar - Data processing
English language - Research - Data processing English language - Discourse analysis - Data processing English language - Variation - History English language - Social aspects Computational linguistics |
| ISBN | 90-272-6131-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Intro -- Corpora and the Changing Society -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Corpora and the changing society -- Part I. Changing society -- The great temptation: What diachronic corpora do and do not reveal about social change -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Five pitfalls in the analysis of diachronic corpus data -- 2.1 Corpus frequencies (semasiological frequencies) are not always equivalent to frequencies of entities and events in the real world (onomasiological frequencies) 2.2 Corpus frequencies of polysemous words need to be broken down into sense-specific and construction-specific frequencies -- 2.3 Correlations in large datasets may be spurious -- 2.4 Comparisons of frequency trends in diachronic corpora require adequate statistical treatment -- 2.5 It is not always easy to disentangle social change and linguistic change -- 3. Giving in to temptation: A case study of the English make-causative -- 3.1 The English make-causative construction -- 3.2 Corpus data and descriptive statistics 3.3 Using distributional semantics to study the development of the make-causative -- 3.4 Discussion -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Corpora -- Other references -- Changes in society and language: Charting poverty -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and pre-processing -- 2.1 The EEBO Collection as sampler corpus -- 2.2 The CLMET3.0 corpus -- 2.3 The pre-processing step of spelling normalization -- 3. Methods -- 3.1 Data-based and data-driven approaches -- 3.2 Document classification -- 3.3 Topic modelling -- 3.4 Conceptual maps -- 4. Results and discussion -- 4.1 Dictionary-based approach 4.2 Topic modelling -- 4.3 Conceptual maps -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Corpora and software -- Other references -- Finding evidence for a changing society: A collocational study of medical discourse in 1500-1800 -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 3. Materials and method -- 4. Results -- 4.1 The Corpus of Early Modern English Medical Texts (1500-1700) -- 4.2 The Corpus of Late Modern English Medical Texts (1700-1800) -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Corpora and software -- Other references Semantic neology: Challenges in matching corpus-based semantic change to real-world change -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and methods -- 2.1 Data and tools -- 2.2 Tracking the neosemes -- 3. Case studies -- 3.1 Case study 1: Birther -- 3.2 Case study 2: Normalisation -- 3.3 Case study 3: Cougar -- 3.4 Case study 4: Snowflake -- 3.5 Case study 5: Ghosting -- 4. Discussion -- 4.1 Challenges -- 4.2 Measures shown to allow or enhance system performance -- 4.3 Sociolinguistic insights gained in the study -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Corpora and tools -- Other references. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910794181303321 |
| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2020] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Corpora and the changing society : studies in the evolution of English / / edited by Paula Rautionaho, Arja Nurmi, Juhani Klemola
| Corpora and the changing society : studies in the evolution of English / / edited by Paula Rautionaho, Arja Nurmi, Juhani Klemola |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2020] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (319 pages) |
| Disciplina | 420.9 |
| Collana | Studies in corpus linguistics |
| Soggetto topico |
English language - Grammar - Data processing
English language - Research - Data processing English language - Discourse analysis - Data processing English language - Variation - History English language - Social aspects Computational linguistics |
| ISBN | 90-272-6131-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Intro -- Corpora and the Changing Society -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Corpora and the changing society -- Part I. Changing society -- The great temptation: What diachronic corpora do and do not reveal about social change -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Five pitfalls in the analysis of diachronic corpus data -- 2.1 Corpus frequencies (semasiological frequencies) are not always equivalent to frequencies of entities and events in the real world (onomasiological frequencies) 2.2 Corpus frequencies of polysemous words need to be broken down into sense-specific and construction-specific frequencies -- 2.3 Correlations in large datasets may be spurious -- 2.4 Comparisons of frequency trends in diachronic corpora require adequate statistical treatment -- 2.5 It is not always easy to disentangle social change and linguistic change -- 3. Giving in to temptation: A case study of the English make-causative -- 3.1 The English make-causative construction -- 3.2 Corpus data and descriptive statistics 3.3 Using distributional semantics to study the development of the make-causative -- 3.4 Discussion -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Corpora -- Other references -- Changes in society and language: Charting poverty -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and pre-processing -- 2.1 The EEBO Collection as sampler corpus -- 2.2 The CLMET3.0 corpus -- 2.3 The pre-processing step of spelling normalization -- 3. Methods -- 3.1 Data-based and data-driven approaches -- 3.2 Document classification -- 3.3 Topic modelling -- 3.4 Conceptual maps -- 4. Results and discussion -- 4.1 Dictionary-based approach 4.2 Topic modelling -- 4.3 Conceptual maps -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Corpora and software -- Other references -- Finding evidence for a changing society: A collocational study of medical discourse in 1500-1800 -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 3. Materials and method -- 4. Results -- 4.1 The Corpus of Early Modern English Medical Texts (1500-1700) -- 4.2 The Corpus of Late Modern English Medical Texts (1700-1800) -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Corpora and software -- Other references Semantic neology: Challenges in matching corpus-based semantic change to real-world change -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and methods -- 2.1 Data and tools -- 2.2 Tracking the neosemes -- 3. Case studies -- 3.1 Case study 1: Birther -- 3.2 Case study 2: Normalisation -- 3.3 Case study 3: Cougar -- 3.4 Case study 4: Snowflake -- 3.5 Case study 5: Ghosting -- 4. Discussion -- 4.1 Challenges -- 4.2 Measures shown to allow or enhance system performance -- 4.3 Sociolinguistic insights gained in the study -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Corpora and tools -- Other references. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819865103321 |
| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2020] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Corpus interrogation and grammatical patterns / / edited by Kristin Davidse [and three others] ; in collaboaration with Tinne van Rompaey
| Corpus interrogation and grammatical patterns / / edited by Kristin Davidse [and three others] ; in collaboaration with Tinne van Rompaey |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (368 p.) |
| Disciplina | 420.1/88 |
| Collana | Studies in Corpus Linguistics |
| Soggetto topico |
English language - Grammar - Data processing
English language - Research - Data processing English language - Discourse analysis - Data processing Computational linguistics |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 90-272-6974-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Corpus Interrogation and Grammatical Patterns; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements ; List of contributors ; Interrogating corpora to describe grammatical patterns ; References ; Part 1. Patterns in the verb phrase; Light verb constructions in the history of English ; 1. Introduction ; 1.1 Definition of light verb constructions ; 1.2 Use of light verb constructions and their development ; 2. Studies on the development of light verb constructions in the history English ; 3. Data and method ; 4. Data from the history of English ; 4.1 Old English data
4.2 Middle English data 4.3 Early Modern English data ; 5. Discussion ; 6. Conclusion ; References ; What happened to the English prefix, and could it stage a comeback? ; 1. The prefix then and now ; 2. Particles and their variation in early English ; 3. The decline of the prefix: Theories ; 4. The decline of the prefix: Quantitative evidence ; 5. The decline of the prefix: Interpretation ; 6. Could the prefix stage a comeback? ; 7. Conclusion ; Sources ; References ; The pattern to be a-hunting from Middle to Late Modern English ; 1. Introduction ; 2. State of the art 3. Nineteenth-century evidence 4. Retrieval problems involved ; 5. Provisional quantitative analysis ; 6. Concluding interpretation ; References ; The present perfect and the preterite in Late Modern and Contemporary English ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Variation in Modern English ; 3. Corpus evidence from Late Modern and Contemporary English ; 3.1 The Brown quartet of corpora ; 3.2 The Corpus of Late Modern English Texts (Extended Version) ; 3.3 The Corpus of Contemporary American English ; 3.4 The Corpus of Historical American English ; 4. Summary and attempted explanation ; Sources ; References can and be able to in nineteenth-century Irish English 1. Introduction ; 2. Theoretical background ; 2.1 Contact-induced language change ; 2.2 can and be able to in present-day Standard English ; 2.3 Participant-internal possibility in Irish ; 3. Methodology ; 3.1 Irish English data ; 3.2 English English data ; 3.3 Data analysis ; 4. be able to versus can in participant-internal possibility contexts ; 4.2 Language internal factors ; 5. Conclusion ; Sources ; References ; Part 2. Patterns in the noun phrase; Syntactic constraints on the use of dual form intensifiers in Modern English 1. Setting the scene 2. The contrast between attributive and non-attributive adjectives ; 3. Intensified adjectives with or without complements ; 4. Discussion ; 5. Conclusions ; Sources ; References ; Ma daddy wis dead chuffed ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Sources of data ; 3. Discussion of the data ; 3.1 Preliminary remarks ; 3.2 Dead in BYU-BNC ; 3.3 Dead in COCA ; 3.4 Dead in ICE-Ireland ; 3.5 Dead in SCOTS ; 3.6 Dead across the varieties examined ; 4. Concluding remarks ; Sources ; References ; The case of focus ; 1. Introduction 2. The distribution of pronoun case forms in English: A brief survey |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910459982203321 |
| Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Corpus interrogation and grammatical patterns / / edited by Kristin Davidse [and three others] ; in collaboaration with Tinne van Rompaey
| Corpus interrogation and grammatical patterns / / edited by Kristin Davidse [and three others] ; in collaboaration with Tinne van Rompaey |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (368 p.) |
| Disciplina | 420.1/88 |
| Collana | Studies in Corpus Linguistics |
| Soggetto topico |
English language - Grammar - Data processing
English language - Research - Data processing English language - Discourse analysis - Data processing Computational linguistics |
| ISBN | 90-272-6974-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Corpus Interrogation and Grammatical Patterns; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements ; List of contributors ; Interrogating corpora to describe grammatical patterns ; References ; Part 1. Patterns in the verb phrase; Light verb constructions in the history of English ; 1. Introduction ; 1.1 Definition of light verb constructions ; 1.2 Use of light verb constructions and their development ; 2. Studies on the development of light verb constructions in the history English ; 3. Data and method ; 4. Data from the history of English ; 4.1 Old English data
4.2 Middle English data 4.3 Early Modern English data ; 5. Discussion ; 6. Conclusion ; References ; What happened to the English prefix, and could it stage a comeback? ; 1. The prefix then and now ; 2. Particles and their variation in early English ; 3. The decline of the prefix: Theories ; 4. The decline of the prefix: Quantitative evidence ; 5. The decline of the prefix: Interpretation ; 6. Could the prefix stage a comeback? ; 7. Conclusion ; Sources ; References ; The pattern to be a-hunting from Middle to Late Modern English ; 1. Introduction ; 2. State of the art 3. Nineteenth-century evidence 4. Retrieval problems involved ; 5. Provisional quantitative analysis ; 6. Concluding interpretation ; References ; The present perfect and the preterite in Late Modern and Contemporary English ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Variation in Modern English ; 3. Corpus evidence from Late Modern and Contemporary English ; 3.1 The Brown quartet of corpora ; 3.2 The Corpus of Late Modern English Texts (Extended Version) ; 3.3 The Corpus of Contemporary American English ; 3.4 The Corpus of Historical American English ; 4. Summary and attempted explanation ; Sources ; References can and be able to in nineteenth-century Irish English 1. Introduction ; 2. Theoretical background ; 2.1 Contact-induced language change ; 2.2 can and be able to in present-day Standard English ; 2.3 Participant-internal possibility in Irish ; 3. Methodology ; 3.1 Irish English data ; 3.2 English English data ; 3.3 Data analysis ; 4. be able to versus can in participant-internal possibility contexts ; 4.2 Language internal factors ; 5. Conclusion ; Sources ; References ; Part 2. Patterns in the noun phrase; Syntactic constraints on the use of dual form intensifiers in Modern English 1. Setting the scene 2. The contrast between attributive and non-attributive adjectives ; 3. Intensified adjectives with or without complements ; 4. Discussion ; 5. Conclusions ; Sources ; References ; Ma daddy wis dead chuffed ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Sources of data ; 3. Discussion of the data ; 3.1 Preliminary remarks ; 3.2 Dead in BYU-BNC ; 3.3 Dead in COCA ; 3.4 Dead in ICE-Ireland ; 3.5 Dead in SCOTS ; 3.6 Dead across the varieties examined ; 4. Concluding remarks ; Sources ; References ; The case of focus ; 1. Introduction 2. The distribution of pronoun case forms in English: A brief survey |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787288603321 |
| Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Corpus interrogation and grammatical patterns / / edited by Kristin Davidse [and three others] ; in collaboaration with Tinne van Rompaey
| Corpus interrogation and grammatical patterns / / edited by Kristin Davidse [and three others] ; in collaboaration with Tinne van Rompaey |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (368 p.) |
| Disciplina | 420.1/88 |
| Collana | Studies in Corpus Linguistics |
| Soggetto topico |
English language - Grammar - Data processing
English language - Research - Data processing English language - Discourse analysis - Data processing Computational linguistics |
| ISBN | 90-272-6974-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Corpus Interrogation and Grammatical Patterns; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements ; List of contributors ; Interrogating corpora to describe grammatical patterns ; References ; Part 1. Patterns in the verb phrase; Light verb constructions in the history of English ; 1. Introduction ; 1.1 Definition of light verb constructions ; 1.2 Use of light verb constructions and their development ; 2. Studies on the development of light verb constructions in the history English ; 3. Data and method ; 4. Data from the history of English ; 4.1 Old English data
4.2 Middle English data 4.3 Early Modern English data ; 5. Discussion ; 6. Conclusion ; References ; What happened to the English prefix, and could it stage a comeback? ; 1. The prefix then and now ; 2. Particles and their variation in early English ; 3. The decline of the prefix: Theories ; 4. The decline of the prefix: Quantitative evidence ; 5. The decline of the prefix: Interpretation ; 6. Could the prefix stage a comeback? ; 7. Conclusion ; Sources ; References ; The pattern to be a-hunting from Middle to Late Modern English ; 1. Introduction ; 2. State of the art 3. Nineteenth-century evidence 4. Retrieval problems involved ; 5. Provisional quantitative analysis ; 6. Concluding interpretation ; References ; The present perfect and the preterite in Late Modern and Contemporary English ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Variation in Modern English ; 3. Corpus evidence from Late Modern and Contemporary English ; 3.1 The Brown quartet of corpora ; 3.2 The Corpus of Late Modern English Texts (Extended Version) ; 3.3 The Corpus of Contemporary American English ; 3.4 The Corpus of Historical American English ; 4. Summary and attempted explanation ; Sources ; References can and be able to in nineteenth-century Irish English 1. Introduction ; 2. Theoretical background ; 2.1 Contact-induced language change ; 2.2 can and be able to in present-day Standard English ; 2.3 Participant-internal possibility in Irish ; 3. Methodology ; 3.1 Irish English data ; 3.2 English English data ; 3.3 Data analysis ; 4. be able to versus can in participant-internal possibility contexts ; 4.2 Language internal factors ; 5. Conclusion ; Sources ; References ; Part 2. Patterns in the noun phrase; Syntactic constraints on the use of dual form intensifiers in Modern English 1. Setting the scene 2. The contrast between attributive and non-attributive adjectives ; 3. Intensified adjectives with or without complements ; 4. Discussion ; 5. Conclusions ; Sources ; References ; Ma daddy wis dead chuffed ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Sources of data ; 3. Discussion of the data ; 3.1 Preliminary remarks ; 3.2 Dead in BYU-BNC ; 3.3 Dead in COCA ; 3.4 Dead in ICE-Ireland ; 3.5 Dead in SCOTS ; 3.6 Dead across the varieties examined ; 4. Concluding remarks ; Sources ; References ; The case of focus ; 1. Introduction 2. The distribution of pronoun case forms in English: A brief survey |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827628603321 |
| Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
