Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. Setting the scene
5. Technology and phraseology 15
6. Corpus-driven approaches to grammar 33
7. Valency – item-specificity and idiom principle 49
8. Fowler’s Modern English Usage at the interface of lexis and grammar 69
9. The psycholinguistic reality of collocation and semantic prosody (1) 89
10. Part II. Considering the particulars
11. The lexicogrammar of present-day Indian English 117
12. The semantic and grammatical overlap of as and that 137
13. The historical development of the verb doubt and its various patterns of complementation 153
14. The grammatical properties of recurrent phrases with body-part nouns 171
15. A corpus-based investigation of cognate object constructions 189
16. Revisiting the evidence for objects in English 211
17. Lexico-functional categories and complex collocations 229
18. Polysemy and lexical priming 247
19. Local textual functions of move in newspaper story patterns 265
20. Loud signatures 289
21. Index 317