Multifactorial Analysis in Corpus Linguistics: A Study of Particle Placement

Open Linguistics

by Stefan Th. Gries

This book presents a new analysis of the word-order alternation of English transitive phrasal verbs (aka Particle Movement) from a cognitive-functional and psycholinguistic perspective. Its main objective, however, is a methodological one, namely to demonstrate the superiority of corpus-based, multifactorial and probabilistic approaches towards grammatical phenomena over traditional analyses based on acceptability judgements and minimal pair tests.

Genres: Linguistics

224 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

Also sometimes listed as Stefan Thomas Gries.