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Lexicology. Semantics --- Mathematical linguistics --- English language --- Computational linguistics --- Data processing --- English language - Data processing

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The present book offers fresh insights into the description of ditransitive verbs and their complementation in present-day English. In the theory-oriented first part, a pluralist framework is developed on the basis of previous research that integrates ditransitive verbs as lexical items with both the entirety of their complementation patterns and the cognitive and semantic aspects of ditransitivity. This approach is combined with modern corpus-linguistic methodology in the present study, which draws on an exhaustive semi-automatic analysis of all patterns of ditransitive verbs in the British component of the International Corpus of English (ICE-GB) and also takes into account selected data from the British National Corpus (BNC). In the second part of the study, the complementation of ditransitive verbs (e.g. give, send ) is analysed quantitatively and qualitatively. Special emphasis is placed here on the identification of significant principles of pattern selection, id est factors that lead language users to prefer specific patterns over other patterns in given contexts (e.g. weight, focus, pattern flow in text, lexical constraints). In the last part, some general aspects of a network-like, usage-based model of ditransitive verbs, their patterns and the relevant principles of pattern selection are sketched out, thus bridging the gap between the performance-related description of language use and a competence-related model of language cognition.

English language --- Verb. --- 802.0-56 --- Engels: syntaxis; semantiek --- 802.0-56 Engels: syntaxis; semantiek --- Germanic languages --- English language - Verb.

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The articles in this volume are intended to bridge what Sridhar and Sridhar (1986) have called the 'paradigm gap' between traditional SLA research on the one hand and research into institutionalised second-language varieties in former colonial territories on the other. Since both learner Englishes and second-language varieties are typically non-native forms of English that emerge in language contact situations, it is high time that they are described and compared on an empirical basis in order to draw conceptual and theoretical conclusions with regard to their form, function and acquisition. The present collection of articles places special emphasis on empirical evidence obtained from large-scale analyses of computerised corpora of learner Englishes (such as the International Corpus of Learner English) and of second-language varieties of English (such as the International Corpus of English). It addresses questions such as 'Are the phenomena we find in ESL and EFL varieties features or errors?' or 'How common and wide-spread are features across contact varieties of English?'.

Lexicology. Semantics --- Psycholinguistics --- English language --- Dialectology --- Second language acquisition --- Language and languages --- Study and teaching --- Variation --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- Study and teaching. --- Variation. --- Foreign language study --- Second language learning --- Language and education --- Language schools --- Language acquisition --- Dialects --- Germanic languages --- Language and languages Study and teaching --- Second language acquisition Study and teaching --- Second language acquisition - Study and teaching --- Language and languages - Study and teaching --- English language - Variation

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This volume will be of significant interest to researchers working in corpus linguistics, learner corpus research, second language acquisition and English for Academic and Specific Purposes, as well to language teachers and materials developers.

Corpora (Linguistics) --- Language and languages --- Second language acquisition --- Second language learning --- Language acquisition --- Foreign languages --- Languages --- Anthropology --- Communication --- Ethnology --- Information theory --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Philology --- Linguistics --- Corpus-based analysis (Linguistics) --- Corpus linguistics --- Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) --- Study and teaching --- E-books --- Corpora (Linguistics) - Case studies --- Language and languages - Study and teaching - Case studies --- Second language acquisition - Case studies

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