INTRANSITIVE PHRASAL VERBS WITH PARTICLE 'THROUGH' IN BRITISH NATIONAL CORPUS by Diana Anggraeni

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Corpus based study of verbs explain and clarify as an example of assistance in pedagogical settings by Séguin Maja

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Final but, theticality and subjectification by Sylvie Hancil

“…The purpose of this article is to provide a synchronic study of final but in Southern and Northern British English by examining the spoken demographic section of the British National Corpus and the spoken section of the Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech. …”
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Forms and meanings of intensification: a multifactorial comparison of quite and rather by Guillaume Desagulier

“…My investigation is restricted to quite and rather in the contexts where they intensify adjectives in the British National Corpus. I use correspondence analysis and multiple correspondence analysis to visualize and interpret distances between (a) the two intensifiers, (b) the adjectives they modify and the respective semantic classes they belong to, and (c) syntactic information regarding how intensifiers and adjectives pattern together. …”
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An enunciative description of three concessive sentence adverbs in English: yet, however, nevertheless by Graham Ranger

“…The modelisation of operations will additionally be seen to correspond to characteristic contextual configurations of each marker, which may be described on the basis of corpus evidence (specifically, the British National Corpus and a short contemporary argumentative text).…”
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The Content Form of the Lexeme “Average”: Synchrony and Diachrony by T. A. Svetonosova

“…The practical part covers the synchronic and diachronic contexts in which the lexeme average operates - data from the British National Corpus, entries from monolingual dictionaries, materials from coursebooks, entries from etymological dictionaries. …”
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Mind you: an enunciative description by Graham Ranger

“…The present article deals with the parenthetical sequence mind you, using examples taken from the British National Corpus. After a brief discussion evoking the methodological difficulties implied by corpus study of a polyvalent, multiword marker of this type, I will propose a description, formulated within the Theory of Enunciative Operations, according to which, in a sequence of the general form "p mind you q", mind you indicates that q operates a retroactive adjustment relative to the inferences which the utterance of p might give rise to. …”
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A corpus-based analysis of light verb constructions with MAKE and DO in British English by Judita Giparaitė

“…The research is corpus-based, and the data for analysis are collected from the British National Corpus (BNC). The semantic description deals with characteristics such as generality, polysemy and aspectual meaning, and the syntactic description focuses on complementation. …”
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The status of when- and where- clauses without an overt antecedent by Bénédicte Guillaume

“…Nous souhaitons dans cet article tester la validité de la division tripartite entre interrogatives, relatives libres et propositions circonstancielles communément employée dans les manuels de grammaire, en nous fondant sur un corpus de taille moyenne, constitué d’exemples authentiques tirés pour l’essentiel du British National Corpus. Nous proposons de faire la différence entres les exemples ambigus (dont la signification varie en fonction du contexte) et les exemples hybrides (qui présentent un mixte de caractéristiques pouvant appartenir à plusieurs catégories différentes). …”
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