The Acquisition and Use of Yes-no Questions in English: A Corpus-Study from a Usage-based Perspective
- Submitting institution
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The University of Liverpool
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 14652
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- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Narr Francke Attempto
- ISBN
- 9783823380689
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This monograph is the first work to offer a comprehensive account of the L1-acquisition and use of yes-no questions in English from a usage-based, construction grammar perspective. On the basis of two large corpora (the BNC and a high-density CHILDES corpus), the book explores two issues in detail which have been neglected in previous research - 1. the prevalence of non-canonical questions; 2. the discourse-functional properties of both canonical and non-canonical yes-no questions. In sum, this submission is a complex piece of research drawing on large datasets and demonstrating sustained research effort.
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- Non-English
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