[Corpora-List] non-canonical subjects in corpora

From: J-C Khalifa (jck@ricky.univ-poitiers.fr)
Date: Wed Sep 10 2003 - 09:09:34 MET DST

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    Hi everyone,

    My apologies to those of you who might have read this posting on Linguist
    List already, but responses were very scant & one American colleague said I
    might get better feedback from you folks!

    I'm starting a piece of work on non-canonical subjects in English (i.e.
    mainly finite & non-finite clauses, PPs and the like). I was wondering
    whether anyone could direct me to published or unpublished studies on the
    frequency of such subjects in corpora. I'm quite sure there must have been
    some work on the relative frequency of subjects by type (pronouns, NPs,
    complex NPs, and hopefully non-canonical ones), but I must admit I'm quite
    lost in the spate of corpus linguistics studies that have been published in
    the past few years. Any tips on this? I'll post a summary if that proves
    useful.

    All the very best,

                     Jean-Charles Khalifa

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