Chapter 9. General conclusion

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of tables xi
4. List of figures xiii
5. List of abbreviations xv
6. Acknowledgements xvii
7. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
8. Chapter 2. Defining the key constructs 11
9. Chapter 3. Corpus-based contrastive approaches to conjunctive markers 69
10. Chapter 4. Systemic Functional Linguistics, corpus linguistics and the textual metafunction 109
11. Chapter 5. Data and methodology 143
12. Chapter 6. Beyond automatic extraction 169
13. Chapter 7. Frequency and patterns of use of English and French conjunctive markers of contrast 207
14. Chapter 8. Placement patterns of English and French conjunctive adjuncts of contrast 299
15. Chapter 9. General conclusion 383
16. References 397
17. Appendices
18. Appendix 1. List of newspapers and academic journals included in the corpus 425
19. Appendix 2. Individual syntactic patterning of English and French conjunctive markers of contrast 427
20. Appendix 3. Non-pruned Classification and Regression Trees emerging from the analysis of English and French conjunctive adjunct placement 432
21. Index 435