Exploring the Lexis–Grammar Interface

This volume showcases studies that recognize and provide evidence for the inseparability of lexis and grammar. The contributors explore in what ways these two areas, often treated separately in linguistic theory and description, form an organic whole. The papers in Section I (Setting the Scene) introduce some of the key methodological approaches and theoretical positions at the lexis-grammar interface, while Section II (Considering the Particulars) contains papers that report on case studies and show concrete applications of the central methods and theories. Exploring the Lexis-Grammar Interface is a stimulating collection of papers for anyone who wishes to learn more about and get fresh state-of-the-art perspectives on language patterning.

Table of contents

Introduction: Zooming in
Part I. Setting the scene 
Technology and phraseology: With notes on the history of corpus linguistics
Corpus-driven approaches to grammar: The search for common ground 
Valency – item-specificity and idiom principle 
Fowler’s Modern English Usage at the interface of lexis and grammar 
The psycholinguistic reality of collocation and semantic prosody (1): Lexical access 
Part II. Considering the particulars 115 
The lexicogrammar of present-day Indian English: Corpus-based perspectives on structural nativisation
The semantic and grammatical overlap of as and that: Evidence from non-standard English 
The historical development of the verb doubt and its various patterns of complementation 
The grammatical properties of recurrent phrases with body-part nouns: The N1 to N1 pattern 
A corpus-based investigation of cognate object constructions 
Revisiting the evidence for objects in English 
Lexico-functional categories and complex collocations: The case of intensifiers 
Polysemy and lexical priming: The case of drive 
Local textual functions of move in newspaper story patterns 
Loud signatures: Comparing evaluative discourse styles – patterns in rants and riffs 
Index