The have-it-that construction: A corpus-based analysis
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Ureña Gómez-Moreno, PedroEditorial
John Benjamins
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Extraposition Collexeme analysis Construction Evaluation
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2014Referencia bibliográfica
Published version: Ureña Gómez-Moreno, Pedro. The have-it-that construction: A corpus-based analysis. International journal of corpus linguistics. Volume 19, Issue 4, Jan 2014, p. 505 - 529. https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.19.4.03gom
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Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation FFI2010-15983Abstract
Speakers do not always attribute agency straightforwardly when they communicate.
While complying with the maxims of explicitness and relevance, they may depict
states of affairs headed by an identifiable source. More often than not, however, it
seems they leave out this source for a number of reasons and through different
mechanisms. This paper is a corpus-based study of one such non-identifying
structures, namely the extrapositional have-it-that construction, in examples such as
Several hypotheses have it that land-use changes. Drawing on data from the BNC, this
paper investigates the use, distribution and functioning of the have-it-that
construction. The paper also highlights the usefulness of simple collexeme analysis in
revealing systematic co-selection relationships within the construction.