The Phrasal Verb Type ‘To Have a Look’ in Modern English

Stein, Gabriele

doi:10.1515/iral.1991.29.1.1

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“…The words with which they collocate are often not arbitrary but 'restricted' collocations (Howarth 1998a(Howarth , 1998b and are referred to in this study as "delexical MWUs". They are also termed "expanded predicates" (Algeo 1995), "stretched verb constructions" (Nesselhauf 2005), "support verb constructions" (Langer 2004), "periphrastic verbal constructions" (Wierzbicka 1982), "phrasal verb types" (Stein 1991) and "support" verb constructions (Langer 2004;Ronan and Schneider 2015). Algeo (1995:203-204), for instance, defines an "expanded predicate" as "an idiomatic verb-object construction in which the verb (e.g.…”

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South African students’ use of delexical multiword units: The trouble with high-frequency verbs

Scheepers

2017

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This article describes a corpus-linguistic investigation of undergraduates' production of delexical multiword units (MWUs) comprising high-frequency verb + noun combinations. The aim was to shed more light on the difficulties these deceptively simple combinations pose for writers in a multilingual South African context. Two corpora of learner writing from different areas of English studies (literature and communication for law) and a reference corpus of scholarly writing were compared, focusing on the frequency of MWUs in the student corpora and errors in these combinations. That these MWUs and the common verbs they feature are "error-prone" (Altenberg and Granger 2001:179) in learner language is well attested in current research. This study found that student writers did indeed have difficulty producing error-free delexical MWUs. A detailed analysis of their errors found that these were caused mainly by the verb in the combination, particularly verb collocation. These findings highlight the difficulties these combinations pose for South African learners. Such combinations are common in everyday language and academic writing, and the findings underline the importance of a sound knowledge of high-frequency verbs and their collocations for students writing in an academic milieu.

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South African students’ use of delexical multiword units: The trouble with high-frequency verbs

Scheepers

2017

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“…In terms of the set of light verbs which appear in CPs, there is evidence that giefan/give grows in frequency relative to the other members. Traugott (1999), citing a range of studies, suggests that give is the least frequent light verb in CP constructions in OE and ME, though it is the third most frequent in the 16th to 19th centuries; in Modern English, it has been suggested that give is the most frequent light verb in CPs in the modern period (Stein 1991). 2 For further and fuller discussion, see the papers in and Claridge (2000).…”

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Multiple inheritance and constructional change

Trousdale

2013

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Language as a network of dependencies or constructions is a central feature of many cognitive theories of grammar. In this network, inheritance relationships are used to describe synchronic facts about a language whereby members of a less abstract set inherit properties from a more general set, and in the case of multiple inheritance, from more than one general set. This article explores some of the ways in which the language network may change over time, particularly the ways in which more than one constructional type may be considered to be the source of a change in the network.

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“…We decided to look at LVCs (see Huddleston & Pullum 2002, 290-6) (Renský 1966;Hoffmann 1972;Akimoto 1989;Stein 1991;Stein & Quirk;Quirk 1995;Labuhn 2001). Live (1973) simply calls them 'take-have-phrasals'.…”

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Indian English – An Emerging Epicentre? A Pilot Study on Light Verbs in Web-derived Corpora of South Asian Englishes

Hoffmann¹,

Hundt²,

Mukherjee

2011

Anglia - Zeitschrift für englische Philologie

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In research into New Englishes, it has been suggested that English has turned into a genuinely pluricentric language in the late 20th century and that various regionally relevant norm-developing centres have emerged that exert an influence on the formation and development of the English language in neighbouring areas. In the present paper, we focus on Indian English (IndE), the largest institutionalised second-language variety of English, and its potential role as an emerging epicentre in South Asia. Specifically, we are interested in determining to what extent IndE as the dominant variety in the region shapes the norms in Standard(ising) Englishes in the neighbouring countries. The data for a case study on light verb constructions were retrieved from large web-derived corpora with texts from national English-medium newspapers in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lankacountries that all once formed part of the British colonial empire in South Asia and that have retained the English language as a communicative vehicle, albeit to different extents. Our insights from web-derived corpora open up new perspectives for the description of the closeness and distance between Indian English on the one hand and English in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka on the other.

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The Phrasal Verb Type ‘To Have a Look’ in Modern English

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South African students’ use of delexical multiword units: The trouble with high-frequency verbs

South African students’ use of delexical multiword units: The trouble with high-frequency verbs

Multiple inheritance and constructional change

Indian English – An Emerging Epicentre? A Pilot Study on Light Verbs in Web-derived Corpora of South Asian Englishes

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