A corpus-based stylistic study of newspaper English

This study is based on a corpus of 2400 clauses taken from British national newspapers in 1986 and stored in a computer database with each clause coded for a number of grammatical (and some semantic) features. These features relate to the verb phrase (e.g. finiteness), the clause (e.g. subordination...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jeffries, Lesley Evelyn
Other Authors: Barber, D. ; Sampson, G.
Published: University of Leeds 1989
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.329011