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"Off with their heads". Profiling TAM in ICE corpora

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2012
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Schneider, G., & Hundt, M. (2012). “Off with their heads”. Profiling TAM in ICE corpora. In M. Hundt & U. Gut (Eds.), Mapping Unity and Diversity World-Wide. Corpus-Based Studies of New Englishes (No. G43; Issue G43, pp. 1–34). John Benjamins.

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The main aim of our chapter is a methodological one, that of comparing a largely data-driven approach to regional variation in world Englishes and a corpus-based approach. As a case study, we examine tense, aspect and modality (TAM) differences between five varieties. Our investigation uses frequency differences in verb chunks and tags, based on syntactically annotated material from the International Corpus of English. Most of our results corroborate previous, corpus-based findings. The data-driven findings guide our qualitative inves

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  • Schneider, Gerold
  • Hundt, Marianne

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  • Hundt, Marianne
  • Gut, Ulrike

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Mapping Unity and Diversity World-Wide. Corpus-Based Studies of New Englishes

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Amsterdam

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1

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34

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English

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2012

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2012-04-13

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Varieties of English Around the World

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978-90-272-7494-6

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295 since deposited on 2012-04-13
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Schneider, G., & Hundt, M. (2012). “Off with their heads”. Profiling TAM in ICE corpora. In M. Hundt & U. Gut (Eds.), Mapping Unity and Diversity World-Wide. Corpus-Based Studies of New Englishes (No. G43; Issue G43, pp. 1–34). John Benjamins.

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