The sample consists of the first 500 sentences of the following plays : A Taste of Honey ( S. DELANEY ), Spitting Image ( C. SPENCER ), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ( E. ALBEE ) [which is the only American English play in the corpus], The Dwarfs ( H. PINTER ), Belcher's Luck ( D. MERCER ), The Duel ( I. DELL ), Have You Any Dirty Washing, Mother Dear? ( C. EXTON ), Neighbours ( I. SAUNDERS ), A Night Out ( H. PINTER ), The Celebration ( D. STOREY ), The Apprentices ( P. TERSON ), Narrow Road to the Deep North ( E. BOND ), Hadrian VII ( P. LUKE ), A Slight Ache ( EL PINTER ), This Story of Yours ( J. HOPKINS ), The Au-Pair Man ( H. LEONARD ), Afore Night Come ( D. RUDKIN ), Under The Skin ( K. ROSS ), Look Back in Anger ( J. OSBORNE ), Mrs Mouse Are You Within? ( F. MARCUS ).
, Grammatica in het Vreemde-Talenonderwijs : Kernzinnen en Frequente Constructies, Revue des Langues Vivantes - Tijdschrift voor Levende Talen, XXXVI 1970, 5, 517-535.