Corpora: delexical verbs

Antoinette Renouf (ant@rdues.liv.ac.uk)
Wed, 2 Dec 1998 15:58:29 GMT

Dear Colleagues
A summary of the references and pointers which I have received
on the above research topic on behalf of Ms Klara Lenochova is given below.

Thanks for this information are due to:

Quentin G. Allan <qgallan@hkucc.hku.hk.
Chris Butler <cbutler@mx4.redestb.es>
Antoine Consigny <anconsig@liverpool.ac.uk.
Ms Lynne Flowerdew <lclynne@uxmail.ust.hk>
Hilde Hasselgard <hilde.hasselgard@iba.uio.no>
Tony Jappy <tony@univ-perp.fr>
Charles Meyer <meyer@cs.umb.edu>

Antoinette Renouf
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References

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and "give" from a corpus of academic texts'. MA dissertation.

Algeo, J. (1995), "Having a look at the expanded predicate", in Aarts,
B. & Ch. Meyer (eds.), The Verb in Contemporary English, CUP, pp.
203-217.

Allan, Q. (1998). `Delexical verbs and degrees of desemanticization'.
Word Vol. 49 No. 1 pp 1 - 17.

Chris Butler (forthcoming). 'A matter of give and take: Corpus
linguistics and the predicate frame', paper given at the 1998
International Conference on Functional Grammar in Amsterdam, and to
appear in the proceedings.

the work of Mona Flognfeldt, at Oslo College
Mona.Flognfeldt@lu.hioslo.no

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