Corpus-driven approaches to grammar
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Michael Hoey✝
Abstract
Accounting for collocation has to be central to a true theory of language but a satisfactory account must also be able to deal with the grammaticality of language. A number of linguistic positions have attempted to describe the relationship between collocation and grammar, including Sinclair’s idiom principle (1996, 2004), Hunston and Francis’s Pattern Grammar (2000) and my own lexical priming theory (2003, 2005). Although they share many common perspectives and grow out of a common tradition, these approaches do not appear especially similar. This paper seeks to relate lexical priming to both the idiom principle and Pattern Grammar, and shows that with tweaking there are no important incompatibilities amongst the approaches.
Abstract
Accounting for collocation has to be central to a true theory of language but a satisfactory account must also be able to deal with the grammaticality of language. A number of linguistic positions have attempted to describe the relationship between collocation and grammar, including Sinclair’s idiom principle (1996, 2004), Hunston and Francis’s Pattern Grammar (2000) and my own lexical priming theory (2003, 2005). Although they share many common perspectives and grow out of a common tradition, these approaches do not appear especially similar. This paper seeks to relate lexical priming to both the idiom principle and Pattern Grammar, and shows that with tweaking there are no important incompatibilities amongst the approaches.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
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Part I. Setting the scene
- Technology and phraseology 15
- Corpus-driven approaches to grammar 33
- Valency – item-specificity and idiom principle 49
- Fowler’s Modern English Usage at the interface of lexis and grammar 69
- The psycholinguistic reality of collocation and semantic prosody (1) 89
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Part II. Considering the particulars
- The lexicogrammar of present-day Indian English 117
- The semantic and grammatical overlap of as and that 137
- The historical development of the verb doubt and its various patterns of complementation 153
- The grammatical properties of recurrent phrases with body-part nouns 171
- A corpus-based investigation of cognate object constructions 189
- Revisiting the evidence for objects in English 211
- Lexico-functional categories and complex collocations 229
- Polysemy and lexical priming 247
- Local textual functions of move in newspaper story patterns 265
- Loud signatures 289
- Index 317
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
-
Part I. Setting the scene
- Technology and phraseology 15
- Corpus-driven approaches to grammar 33
- Valency – item-specificity and idiom principle 49
- Fowler’s Modern English Usage at the interface of lexis and grammar 69
- The psycholinguistic reality of collocation and semantic prosody (1) 89
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Part II. Considering the particulars
- The lexicogrammar of present-day Indian English 117
- The semantic and grammatical overlap of as and that 137
- The historical development of the verb doubt and its various patterns of complementation 153
- The grammatical properties of recurrent phrases with body-part nouns 171
- A corpus-based investigation of cognate object constructions 189
- Revisiting the evidence for objects in English 211
- Lexico-functional categories and complex collocations 229
- Polysemy and lexical priming 247
- Local textual functions of move in newspaper story patterns 265
- Loud signatures 289
- Index 317
