Corpus interrogation and grammatical patterns

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This article proposes a classification of speech functions of variable tag questions in British English conversations. Based on intonational, conversational and formal criteria the analysis shows that tag questions can not only function as questions and statements, but also as responses, commands and offers. A large group of tag questions cannot be captured by any of the traditional speech functions and are classified instead as Statement-Question blends. The article investigates the impact of …

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Full title :Corpus interrogation and grammatical patterns / edited by Kristin Davidse [and three others] ; in collaboaration with Tinne van Rompaey.

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Publication Date:©2014

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Publisher(s):John Benjamins Publishing Company
Place of Publication:Amsterdam, Netherlands
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2014

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"This volume is a selection of strictly refereed and extensively revised papers from the ICAME 33 International Conference "Corpora at the Centre and Crossroads of English Linguistics", organised in Leuven from 30 May to 3 June 2012"--Cover.

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Description:1 online resource (368 pages) : : illustrations, graphs, tables.

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ISBN:9789027203717, 9027203717, 9789027269744, 9027269742
oclc:ocn972504525
LC Classification:PE1074.5
Dewey Decimal:420.1/88

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 evidenc…

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