English Coordinate Constructions - A Processing Perspective on Constituent Order

Drawing on extensive corpus-based research, this book explores the nature of coordinate constructions in three case studies, covering order in copulative compounds, binomials, and more complex phrases. The author uses empirical analyses to explore a wide range of factors and also offers readers a processing perspective on the results obtained.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Previous research on ordering in coordinate constructions; 3. Variables and hypotheses; 4. Data and method; 5. Order of compound constituents; 6. Order of bare noun phrases (binomials); 7. Order of complex noun phrases; 8. Results; 9. A comparative discussion of the results; 10. A processing perspective; 11. Implications and outlook; 12. Summary and conclusion.

About the author

Arne Lohmann is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of English at Universität Wien, Austria.

Summary

Drawing on extensive corpus-based research, this book explores the nature of coordinate constructions in three case studies, covering order in copulative compounds, binomials, and more complex phrases. The author uses empirical analyses to explore a wide range of factors and also offers readers a processing perspective on the results obtained.

Product details

• Authors: Arne Lohmann
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781108790871
• ISBN: 978-1-108-79087-1
• No. of pages: 226
• Series: Studies in English Language
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Linguistics, English, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, Psycholinguistics, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Phonetics, phonology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc