Full Description
A hallmark of corpus linguistics is the study of patterns of language use. The studies presented in this volume all use corpora to investigate patterns of lexis from various perspectives. The first section, "Sequence and Order", presents theoretical and practical aspects of the linguist's task of uncovering the principles that determine such patterns. The next section, "Competing Constructions", discusses the relationship between lexical patterns with similar meanings in the light of diachronic, regional and register variation. New developments in terms of lexicogrammatical meaning and patterning are dealt with in the section "Emerging Patterns". The final section, "Correlating patterns and meaning", discusses ways in which meaning can be studied in corpus data despite the lack of narrowly defined search terms. Though situated at different points on a continuum between lexical and grammatical emphasis, the studies all confirm the inseparability of lexis and grammar.
Contents
1. List of contributors; 2. Introduction (by Hasselgard, Hilde); 3. Sequence and order; 4. Sequence and order: The neo-Firthian tradition of corpus semantics (by Stubbs, Michael); 5. Mom and Dad but Men and Women: The sequencing of sex-determined noun pairs in American English (by Dant, Doris); 6. Sequences of size adjectives in text: Great big, tiny little, and less frequent combinations (by Coffey, Stephen); 7. Competing constructions; 8. The competition between the intensifiers dead and deadly: Some diachronic considerations (by Blanco-Suarez, Zeltia); 9. Has go-V ousted go-and-V?: A study of the diachronic development of both constructions in American English (by Bachmann, Ingo); 10. The construction cannot help -ing and its rivals in Modern English (by Rohdenburg, Gunter); 11. From reduction to emancipation: Is gonna a word? (by Lorenz, David); 12. Complex prepositions and variation within the PNP construction (by Smith, Adam); 13. Emerging patterns; 14. A finer definition of neology in English: The life-cycle of a word (by Renouf, Antoinette); 15. A corpus-based study of gender assignment in recent English loanwords in Norwegian (by Graedler, Anne-Line); 16. The return of the prefix? New verb-particle combinations in blogs (by Diemer, Stefan); 17. Correlating patterns and meaning; 18. Modality and the V wh pattern (by Vincent, Benet); 19. Assessing corpus search methods in onomasiological investigations: Exploring quantity approximation in business discourse (by Goossens, Diane); 20. Author index; 21. Subject index
