| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 238 pages) |
| Series |
Studies in corpus linguistics ; v. 42 |
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Studies in corpus linguistics ; v. 42.
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| Contents |
Adjective Complementation; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Chapter 1. Corpus linguistics, adjectives and that-clauses; Chapter 2. Linguistic analysis of adjectives + that-clauses; Chapter 3. Subjects in the matrix clause and the that-clause and their relation to adjectives; Chapter 4. Verb-adjective combinations; Chapter 5. Objects in the matrix clause; Chapter 6. Adverbs preceding adjectives; Chapter 7. That versus zero that; Chapter 8. The verb phrase in the that-clause; Chapter 9. Making the implicit explicit; References; Appendix. Lee's genre categorization; Index |
| Summary |
This is the first empirical study to focus on adjectives complemented by that-clauses. The in-depth analysis of more than 50,000 cases taken from the British National Corpus gives comprehensive insights into hitherto neglected relations of lexis and grammar. The result of this corpus-driven study is a novel classification of adjectives based on co-occurrence patterns and corroborated with the help of statistical means. The inductive analysis of corpus data offers new perspectives on and innovative descriptions of well-known phenomena of English grammar, such as extraposition or the resultative |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-229) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Adjective.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Clauses.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Adjective
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Clauses
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2010048688 |
| ISBN |
9789027287267 |
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9027287260 |
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1283093170 |
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9781283093170 |
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9786613093172 |
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6613093173 |
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