The have-it-that construction: A corpus-based analysis Ureña Gómez-Moreno, Pedro Extraposition Collexeme analysis Construction Evaluation Financial support for this research has been provided by the DGI, Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, grant FFI2010-15983. 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. 2024-05-03T07:01:32Z 2024-05-03T07:01:32Z 2014 info:eu-repo/semantics/article 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 https://hdl.handle.net/10481/91347 10.1075/ijcl.19.4.03gom eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess John Benjamins