Mehl, S. orcid.org/0000-0003-3036-8132 (2020) Make us difficult: portrait of a non-standard construction. English World-Wide, 41 (3). pp. 352-367. ISSN 0172-8865
Abstract
This paper introduces a previously undiscussed English construction, termed the make us difficult construction. Examples of the construction are presented, from the International Corpus of English and the Corpus of Global Web-Based English, and a quantitative analysis is conducted of the construction’s text frequency and variant rates. Quantitative data on specific usage patterns is employed to inform an analysis of the construction and its productivity, and recommendations are made for future research.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 John Benjamins Publishing Company. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in English World-Wide. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | complex transitive; corpus linguistics; extraposition; GloWbE; International Corpus of English and World Englishes |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 24 Nov 2020 14:26 |
Last Modified: | 24 Nov 2020 17:07 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1075/eww.00054.meh |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:168350 |