Lexical-grammatical patterns in spoken English

• Verfasst von: Nesselhauf, Nadja [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Römer, Ute [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Lexical-grammatical patterns in spoken English
• Titelzusatz: the case of the progressive with future time reference
• Verf.angabe: Nadja Nesselhauf and Ute Römer
• E-Jahr: 2007
• Jahr: 16 October 2007
• Umfang: 37 S.
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 15.08.2022
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: International journal of corpus linguistics
• Ort Quelle: Amsterdam [u.a.] : Benjamins, 1996
• Jahr Quelle: 2007
• Band/Heft Quelle: 12(2007), 3, Seite 297-333
• ISSN Quelle: 1569-9811
• DOI: doi:10.1075/ijcl.12.3.02nes
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• K10plus-PPN: 181431458X

Abstract

Based on a large set of data from one of the biggest available corpora of spoken British English (the 10-million word spoken component of the BNC), this article explores central lexical-grammatical aspects of progressive forms with future time reference. Among the phenomena investigated are verb preferences, adverbial co-selection, subject types, and negation. It is demonstrated that future time progressives in spoken British English are patterned to a considerable extent (for example that it is individual verbs, rather than semantic groups of verbs, that preferably occur in such constructions) and that actual language use often runs counter to claims that can be found in traditional grammatical descriptions of the construction. A number of general and often neglected issues in the analysis of lexical-grammatical patterns are also addressed, in particular the notion of pattern frequency.