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TY - JOUR
T1 - HELP or HELP to: What do corpora have to say?
AU - McEnery, A. M.
AU - Xiao, R. Z.
N1 - The version available here is the final manuscript. The final, definitive version of this article has been published in the Journal, English Studies, 86 (2), 2005, © Informa Plc
PY - 2005/4
Y1 - 2005/4
N2 - In this paper, we will examine a range of factors that may potentially influence a language user's choice of a full or bare infinitive following HELP. The factors include language variety, language change, spoken/written distinction, semantic distinction, and syntactic conditions, namely, an intervening noun phrase or adverbial, the number of intervening words, to preceding HELP, the passive construction, inflections of HELP, and it as the subject. Six corpora are used in this paper, four written corpora (LOB, Brown, FLOB and Frown) and two spoken corpora (the speech section of the BNC and the Corpus of Professional Spoken American English, CPSA).
AB - In this paper, we will examine a range of factors that may potentially influence a language user's choice of a full or bare infinitive following HELP. The factors include language variety, language change, spoken/written distinction, semantic distinction, and syntactic conditions, namely, an intervening noun phrase or adverbial, the number of intervening words, to preceding HELP, the passive construction, inflections of HELP, and it as the subject. Six corpora are used in this paper, four written corpora (LOB, Brown, FLOB and Frown) and two spoken corpora (the speech section of the BNC and the Corpus of Professional Spoken American English, CPSA).
KW - corpus
KW - language variety
KW - language change
KW - register
KW - syntax
M3 - Journal article
VL - 86
SP - 161
EP - 187
JO - English Studies
JF - English Studies
SN - 1744-4217
IS - 2
ER -