Multifactorial Analysis in Corpus Linguistics: A Study of Particle Placement

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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.

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Stefan Thomas Gries teaches in the Dept of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.