Corpus Perspectives on Patterns of Lexis

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Hilde Hasselgård Jarle Ebeling Signe Oksefjell Ebeling(Editor)

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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
References
Primary electronic sources
From reduction to emancipation
1. Introduction
2. Approach and data
3. The variation of going to and gonna
3.1 Speaker's age
3.2 Speaker's education and dialect region
3.3 Speech rate
3.4 Preceding element
3.5 Type of modality
3.6 Summary of the variation
4. Reduction of going to and gonna
4.1 Speaker's age
4.2 Dialect region
4.3 Speech rate
4.4 Preceding element
4.5 Summary of reduction
5. Change in the variation and realization of going to and gonna
5.1 Age-grading of variation
5.2 Age-grading of reduction
6. Conclusion
References
Complex prepositions and variation within the PNP construction
1. The status of the CP as a grammaticalised unit
2. Types of variation
3. Variation and grammaticalisation
3.1 Previous studies on the grammaticalisation of PNP sequences
4. Representation of CPs in contemporary grammars
5. The definite article and the semantics of the noun in CPs
6. Investigation of evidence of use of CPs in corpora
6.1 Summary of corpora used
6.2 Approach to using corpora
7. Patterns of loss of the definite article
7.1 in (the) place of
7.2 by (the) force of
7.3 on (the) ground(s) of
7.4 in (the) light of
7.5 at (the) risk of
8. Complementation patterns
8.1 Collocates for at (the) risk of
8.2 in (the) process of
9. CPs that invariably include the definite article
10. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Corpora
References
Emerging patterns
A finer definition of neology in English
1. Introduction
1.1 Intuitive definition of a neologism
1.2 Neologisms in a static, synchronic corpus
1.3 Neologisms in a dynamic, diachronic corpus
1.4 Semantic neology
1.5 Grammatical neology
2. The life-cycle of a word in diachronic text
2.1 Stage in life-cycle: Birth
2.2 Stage in life-cycle: Increase in frequency - gradual, or sudden if in vogue
2.3 Stage in life-cycle: Orthographic adjustment
2.4 Stage in life-cycle: Lexical Productivity
2.5 Stage in life-cycle: Creativity
2.6 Stage in life-cycle: Settling down
2.7 Stage in life-cycle: Obsolescence
2.8 Stage of life-cycle: Death
3. Elaboration on the 'life-cycle' model: Second comings
3.1 Stage in life-cycle: Semantic neology
3.2 Stage in life-cycle: Re-birth or Revival
4. Closing summary
References
A corpus-based study of gender assignment in recent English loanwords in Norwegian
1. Introduction
2. What is gender?
3. Some underlying assumptions for gender assignment
4. Gender assignment in recent English loanwords
5. Recent English loanwords - and how to find them
6. Distribution
7. Semantic assignment rules
8. Loanwords with neuter gender
9. "Crazy rules" - plausible or not?
10. Other assignment principles
11. Some preliminary conclusions
Corpora
References
The return of the prefix? New verb-particle combinations in blogs
1. The decline of the prefix and recent trends
2. Corpus and method
3. Examples of new prefix verbs
3.1 Verbs with the prefix in-
3.2 Verbs with the prefix on-
4. Discussion of results
Corpora
References
Correlating patterns and meaning
Modality and the V wh pattern
1. Introduction
2. Investigating the association between the infinitive form and the V wh pattern
2.1 Corpus and sampling procedure
2.2 Ascertaining whether there is an association between the infinitive and V wh
2.3 Quantitative evidence for the sequence 'modal/modal-like + verb + wh-clause'
3. Modal meaning and the 'to + verb + wh-clause' sequence
3.1 Categorising 'to VVI wh' sequences into meaning groups: Procedure and broad categories
3.2 Results regarding meaning groups
4. Discussion
5. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Corpus
References
Assessing corpus search methods in onomasiological investigations
1. Introduction
2. Data
3. Corpus search methods
3.1 Starting from annotated data
3.2 Starting from automatically extracted word lists
4. Establishing a corpus methodology for onomasiological investigations
5. Conclusion
References
Appendix 1. Numerical approximators in BENews and LOCRA_B
Appendix 2. Non-numerical approximators in BENews and LOCRA_B
Author index
Subject index

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