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Co-varying verbs and adjectives of it-extraposed constructions with to-infinitive clauses in academic discourse: a quantitative corpus-driven study

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Wiliński J.
Linguistica Pragensia
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2019
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vol. 29
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issue 1
7-28
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This paper employs the background assumptions of usage-based Construction Grammar (Goldberg 1995, 2006, 2013), Frame Semantics (Fillmore 1982), and a quantitative corpus-driven method for investigating the reciprocal interaction between lexical items occurring in two different slots of a grammatical construction. The method, referred to as co-varying collexeme analysis (Stefanowitsch and Gries 2005; Stefanowitsch 2013; Hilpert 2014), is applied to the determination of strongly attracted and repelled pairs of adjectives and verbs occurring in the extraposition construction with to-infinitive clauses in American English. Using the data extracted from the academic sub-corpus of COCA, the author seeks to indicate that some pairs of adjectives and verbs co-occur significantly more frequently than expected in the it is ADJ to V-construction. Furthermore, the results of the analysis of the co-variation of collexemes in two different slots of the same construction seem to suggest that such strong correlations between these slots can be determined by frame-semantic knowledge and/or discourse-functional properties of the construction under study.
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The vagaries of subject it: can it serve as a style marker?

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Fišerová H.
Linguistica Pragensia
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2016
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vol. 26
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issue 1
35-47
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This article analyses the distribution of the different functions of the subject it in two text types: academic prose and fiction. Its objective is to discover to what extent and in which aspects the two examined text types differ. The analysis is based on two hundred examples of it in the subject function obtained from the British National Corpus (BNC), one half of them drawn from academic prose, the other from fiction. The functions of it analysed include anaphoric it, anticipatory it, empty it and it as the subject in a cleft sentence (focusing it). Additionally, the instances of it that did not fit into any of the four main categories are also examined.
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Dislokace, extrapozice a nominativus pendens — srovnávací studie syntaktických struktur ve francouzštině a češtině

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Pešek O.
Časopis pro moderní filologii (Journal for Modern Philology)
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2021
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vol. 103
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issue 2
183-209
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The study defines the categorial framework for the analysis of so-called dislocated structures in contrastive perspective. First, it describes the systemic possibilities of the French and Czech syntaxes in relation to the phenomena studied. The syntactical potential is assessed from a functional point of view, making it possible to explain differences in the use of systemically possible structures in the two languages. The evaluation of systemic possibilities is complemented by a parallel corpus analysis performed in the InterCorp corpus. The study does not include all cases classified as dislocation (extraposition) in the specialized literature, as it focuses primarily on the left-hand extraposition of selected valency verb complements.
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