Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. The attention they have been getting 5
6. 2. The corpus linguistic point of view 13
7. 3. Minimal assumptions in practice 41
8. 4. Time nouns 63
9. 5. People Nouns 99
10. 6. World nouns 141
11. 7. Re-examining the minimal assumptions 161
12. 8. Developing the corpus linguistic theory 179
13. Appendix 1: Pattern codes 195
14. Appendix 2: `Longer examples in Chapter 5' 196
15. References 197
16. Index 205