Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of contributors vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Sequence and order
6. Sequence and order 13
7. Mom and Dad but Men and Women 35
8. Sequences of size adjectives in text 47
9. Competing constructions
10. The competition between the intensifiers dead and deadly 71
11. Has go -V ousted go-and -V? 91
12. The construction cannot help -ing and its rivals in Modern English 113
13. From reduction to emancipation 133
14. Complex prepositions and variation within the PNP construction 153
15. Emerging patterns
16. A finer definition of neology in English 177
17. A corpus-based study of gender assignment in recent English loanwords in Norwegian 209
18. The return of the prefix? New verb-particle combinations in blogs 223
19. Correlating patterns and meaning
20. Modality and the V wh pattern 247
21. Assessing corpus search methods in onomasiological investigations 271
22. Author index 293
23. Subject index 297