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Make us difficult
Portrait of a non-standard construction
- Source: English World-Wide, Volume 41, Issue 3, Nov 2020, p. 352 - 367
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- 09 Nov 2020
Abstract
Abstract
This paper introduces a previously undiscussed English construction, termed the make us difficult construction. Examples of the construction are presented, from the International Corpus of English and the Corpus of Global Web-Based English, and a quantitative analysis is conducted of the construction’s text frequency and variant rates. Quantitative data on specific usage patterns is employed to inform an analysis of the construction and its productivity, and recommendations are made for future research.
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