Title:
Signalling nouns in English : a corpus-based discourse approach / John Flowerdew, Richard W. Forest.
Studies in English language
Author:
Flowerdew, John, author.
Forest, Richard, author.
General Notes:
Originally published hardback : 2015., Originally published hardback : 2015.
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press,
Publication Place:
Cambridge :
ISBN:
9781108403894
1108403891
Subject:
English language -- Noun.
English language -- Parts of speech.
English language -- Grammar.
Lexical grammar.
Series:
Studies in English language
Contents:
1. Introduction -- 2. Grammatical features of signalling nouns -- 3. Semantic features -- 4. Discourse features -- 5. Criteria for determining what constitutes a signalling noun in this study -- 6. Corpus, methodology, annotation system, and reporting of the data -- 7. Set of examples -- 8. Overview of signalling noun distributions in the corpus -- 9. Overview of semantic categories -- 10. Overview of lexicogrammatical and discourse pattern frequencies -- 11. Conclusion -- Appendix A. The overall structure of the corpus -- Appendix B. List of texts that make up the corpus -- Appendix C. Lemmatised SNs in descending order according to normalised frequency -- Appendix D. Non-lemmatised SNs in descending order according to normalised frequency -- Appendix E. Lemmatised SNs in alphabetical order -- Appendix F. Non-lemmatised SNs in alphabetical order -- Appendix G. Frequency of SNs in different semantic categories.
Physical Description:
xviii, 286 pages : illustrations (black and white).
Publication Date:
2017.
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