Multifactorial Analysis in Corpus Linguistics

by Stefan Thomas Gries

Book Overview

This book presents a novel analysis of the word-order alternation of English transitive phrasal verbs (Particle Movement) from a cognitive-functional and psycholinguistic perspective. Its main objective, however, is a methodological one, namely, to demonstrate the superiority of corpus-based, multifactorial and probabilistic approaches to grammatical phenomena over traditional analyses based on acceptability judgements and minimal pair tests. The...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826476066
• ISBN13: 9780826476067
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.1"