Author(s): Bengt Altenberg, Karin Aijmer
Publisher: Rodopi
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 429
Introduction......Page 1
The spoken language corpus: a foundation for grammatical
theory......Page 8
Intuition and annotation – the discussion continues......Page 36
Recent grammatical change in English: data, description,theory......Page 57
Corpus data in a usage-based cognitive grammar......Page 78
Putting ‘putting verbs’ to the test of corpora......Page 94
Esphoric reference and pseudo-definiteness......Page 109
Why “an angel rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm”: A
corpus-based comparative study of metaphor in British and
American political discourse......Page 125
Signalling spokenness in personal advertisements on the Web:
The case of ESL countries in South East Asia......Page 143
Textual colligation: a special kind of lexical priming......Page 160
Adverbials in IT-cleft constructions......Page 184
On the pragmatic functions of let’s utterances......Page 201
Methodological problems in corpus-based historical
pragmatics. The case of English directives......Page 222
Measure noun constructions: degrees of delexicalization and
grammaticalization......Page 233
Yourself: a general-purpose emphatic-reflexive?......Page 250
Aspects of spoken vocabulary development in the Polytechnic of
Wales Corpus of Children’s English......Page 261
Demonstrative reference as a cohesive device in advanced
learner writing: a corpus-based study......Page 279
Translations as semantic mirrors: from parallel corpus to
wordnet......Page 290
Physical contact verbs in English and Swedish from the
perspective of crosslinguistic lexicology......Page 306
Exploring theme contrastively: the choice of model......Page 332
Welcoming children, pets and guests: towards functional
equivalence in the languages of ‘Agriturismo’ and ‘Farmhouse
Holidays’......Page 350
Using WebCorp in the classroom for building specialized
dictionaries......Page 365
The accidental corpus: some issues in extracting linguistic
information from the Web......Page 379
