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Progressives, patterns, pedagogy : a corpus-driven approach to English progressive forms, functions, contexts, and didactics /

Основен автор: Romer, Ute.
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., ℗♭2005.
Серия: Studies in corpus linguistics ; v. 18.
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Съдържание:
  • Cover
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • LCC data
  • Dedication
  • Table of contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1.1. Scope and aims of the study
  • 1.2. Method of analysis
  • 1.3. Structure of the book
  • The theoretical basis of the study
  • 2.1. Corpus-driven linguistics (CDL)
  • 2.1.1. CDL
  • a new theory emerging from corpus work
  • 2.1.2. Corpus-based vs. corpus-driven approaches
  • 2.2. Contextual approaches to the study of language
  • 2.2.1. John R. Firth
  • 2.2.2. John McH. Sinclair
  • 2.3. Pedagogic and didactic grammar
  • 2.3.1. Definitions
  • 2.3.2. The Mindtian approach
  • empirical grammars
  • 2.3.3. The present approach
  • Progressives in theoretical studies and grammars of English
  • 3.1. Problems of definition and terminology
  • 3.2. The diachronic dimension: Progressives on the rise
  • 3.3. The English progressive in two influential theoretical studies
  • 3.3.1. Comrie 1976
  • 3.3.2. Williams 2002
  • 3.4. The progressive in recent linguistic and empirical grammars
  • 3.4.1. Quirk, Greenbaum, Leech, Svartvik 1985
  • 3.4.2. Biber, Johansson, Leech, Conrad, Finegan 1999
  • 3.4.3. Mindt 2000
  • 3.4.4. Huddleston, Pullum 2002
  • 3.5. Previous empirical findings on the use of the progressive
  • 3.5.1. Frequencies
  • 3.5.2. Functions
  • 3.5.3. Contexts
  • Progressives in spoken British English
  • 4.1. Corpus selection
  • 4.1.1. Why spoken British native-speaker English (BrNSE)?
  • 4.1.2. Availability of spoken British native-speaker English corpora
  • 4.1.3. Corpus size and representativeness
  • 4.1.4. Corpora used in this study
  • 4.2. The empirical method: BNC and BoE data collection, processing, and evaluation
  • 4.2.1. Verbs under analysis
  • 4.2.2. The collection of corpus data: Query strategies
  • 4.2.3. Data filtering
  • 4.2.4. Data processing and encoding: The construction of an Access database
  • 4.2.5. Data evaluation
  • 4.3. The use of progressives in spoken English (I)
  • contexts
  • 4.3.1. Distribution of different tense forms
  • 4.3.2. Tense form contractions
  • 4.3.3. Progressives and subjects
  • 4.3.4. Progressives and objects
  • 4.3.5. Progressives and prepositions
  • 4.3.6. Progressives and negation
  • 4.3.7. Progressives and other lexical-grammatical phenomena
  • 4.3.8. Adverbial specification
  • 4.3.9. Summary of the findings [spoken English
  • contexts]
  • 4.4. The use of progressives in spoken English (II)
  • functions
  • 4.4.1. Time reference
  • 4.4.2. Two central function features: Continuousness and repeatedness
  • 4.4.3. One central function or several central functions?
  • 4.4.4. Central functions and time reference
  • 4.4.5. Additional functions of the progressive
  • 4.4.6. Additional functions and time reference
  • 4.4.7. Summary of the findings [spoken English
  • functions]
  • 4.5. Verbs and progressives
  • How lexical is grammar?
  • 4.5.1. Distribution and restrictions: 100 verbs and 9,468 concordance lines [BNC/BoE]
  • 4.5.2. Verbs and tense form distributions [BNC/BoE]
  • 4.5.3. Verbs and subjects [BNC/BoE]
  • 4.5.4. Verbs and objects [BNC/BoE]
  • 4.5.5. Verbs and prepositions [BNC/BoE]
  • 4.5.6. Verbs and negation [BNC/BoE]
  • 4.5.7. Verbs and other lexical-grammatical phenomena [BNC/BoE]
  • 4.5.8. Verbs and adverbial specification [BNC/BoE]
  • 4.5.9. Verbs and time reference [BNC/BoE]
  • 4.5.10. Verbs and central functions of the progressive [BNC/BoE].
  • 1. Introduction: A need to take stock of progressives
  • 2. The theoretical basis of the study: Corpora, contexts, didactics
  • 3. Progressives in theoretical studies and grammars of English
  • 4. Progressives in spoken British English
  • 5. Progressive teaching : Progressives in the German EFL classroom
  • 6. Progressives in real spoken English and in "school" English: A
  • comparison
  • 7. Pedagogical implications: True facts, textbooks, teaching
  • 8. Conclusions: Corpus, practice, theory.