Experimental Methodologies. A Corpus-Based Approach
Experimental Methodologies. A Corpus-Based Approach

Summary/Abstract: On the basis of data, we analyse two different pairs of syntactic patterns, the socalled dative alternation and particle placement of transitive phrasal verbs.Although it has sometimes been argued that only experimental data can contributeto studies of priming, the analysis shows that (a) the corpus-based results for dativesare very similar to the experimental ones; (b) priming is also obtained for the verbparticle construction, a construction hitherto not explored in the priming literatureand (c), most importantly, in line with much previous psycholinguistic and corpuslinguistic work, priming effects turn out to be strongly verb-specific such that someverbs are much more resistant or responsive to priming than others. As a variety ofstudies has shown, speakers tend to repeat syntactic structures they have justencountered (produced or comprehended) before.

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