Overview
- Examines the emergence and development of the clause hierarchy over the history of English using corpus linguistics
- Presents original corpus-based research, both diachronic and synchronic, using the major state-of–the-art English corpora
- Provides solid empirical evidence for hierarchical organization in the clause system and the Adaptive Approach to grammar
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book examines in detail the forms and functions of clause combination in English. Using a corpus linguistics methodology, it describes how the English clause system currently behaves, how it has developed over the history of the language, and how the features and properties of English clause combination have important theoretical and empirical significance. Adopting the cognitive-functional Adaptive Approach to grammar, it offers a series of interconnected studies that investigate how English clause combination interacts with the properties of coherence and cohesion in discourse across historical time, as well in contemporary language use. This work contributes to the ever-increasing common ground between corpus linguistics and cognitive-functional linguistics, producing new paths for interdisciplinary research.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr Clarence Green holds a PhD in linguistics from the University of Melbourne. He is currently a lecturer in Psycholinguistics and Corpus Linguistics at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Patterns and Development in the English Clause System
Book Subtitle: A Corpus-Based Grammatical Overview
Authors: Clarence Green
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2881-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-2880-9Published: 26 October 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9729-4Published: 29 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-2881-6Published: 27 October 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 199
Number of Illustrations: 36 b/w illustrations
Topics: Historical Linguistics, Syntax, Corpus Linguistics