Re: [Corpora-List] If + would , would

From: Ramesh Krishnamurthy (r.krishnamurthy@aston.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Mar 22 2006 - 11:59:53 MET

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    Hi Parveen

    Data from Bank of English (448m words,
    HarperCollins, 2002) = British, American and Other data

    1. "if+X+would" = 7507 examples

    2. “would…would” in the same concordance line = 482 examples

    3. Here is the distribution between US and non-US sources:

    Corpus Total Number of Average Number per
                    Occurrences Million Words

    usspok 14 6.9/million
    brephem 14 3.0/million
    brspok 49 2.4/million
    npr 47 2.1/million
    usbooks 62 1.9/million
    brbooks 74 1.7/million
    strathy 19 1.2/million
    brmags 45 1.0/million
    usnews 10 1.0/million
    usephem 3 0.9/million
    wbe 8 0.8/million
    usacad 5 0.8/million
    oznews 27 0.8/million
    econ 11 0.7/million
    newsci 5 0.6/million
    guard 20 0.6/million
    bbc 10 0.5/million
    indy 15 0.5/million
    sunnow 22 0.5/million
    times 22 0.4/million

    Examples (from the US data sources only):

         and that they would do it `oftener if she would submit." Men, one woman
       the day, and it would have been nice if someone would have shown some
             that her chances would improve if she
    would `walk more femininely, talk
      this, it would be greatly appreciated if you would send it to me. <MX> <p>
       I would consider it a personal favor if you would help me. <p> But no matter
    a goddess we would woo in early youth if we would win her." H Rider Haggard
      be something, there would be indexing if there would not be a--a rate cut. I
    don't think a lot of people would mind if it would get the economy going and
      increase. Many of the new applicants, if they would go to work, would have to
         said that it would be very helpful if Congress would support the type of
       considered a presidential candidate. If he would have any trouble, it would
       on? <p> Birznetz: I would be shocked if there would be compromise on--on
    and she was in white and she was thin. If she would have been fat, it wouldn't
        because I didn't damp it, right? So if I would damp it, you would have #

    Hope this helps
    Ramesh

    At 06:02 22/03/2006, you wrote:

    >Hello everyone,
    >
    >Can someone help please?
    >
    >How often does this grammatical construction
    >occur in American English? And, in which particular genre?
    >
    >If ... would ..., ... would .........
    >
    >Thank you all in adavnce

    Ramesh Krishnamurthy
    Lecturer in English Studies
    School of Languages and Social Sciences
    Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK
    Tel: +44 (0)121-204-3812
    Fax: +44 (0)121-204-3766
    http://www.aston.ac.uk/lss/staff/krishnamurthyr.jsp

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