For example and for instance as markers of exemplification in Present-day EnglishA corpus-based study
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Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
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- Isabel Moskowich-Spiegel Fandiño (coord.)
- Begoña Crespo García (coord.)
- Inés Lareo Martín (coord.)
- Paula Lojo Sandino (coord.)
Editorial: Servizo de Publicacións ; Universidade da Coruña
ISBN: 978-84-9749-401-4
Ano de publicación: 2010
Título do volume: Part II, L-Z
Volume: 2
Páxinas: 747-757
Congreso: International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (2. 2010. A Coruña)
Tipo: Achega congreso
Resumo
Exemplification is a kind of hypotactic relationship between two units where one of those elements,which is more specific, provides an example of the other, which is more general. The present paper is acorpus-based study about exemplifying constructions with the markers for example and for instance inPresent-day British English. The use of both markers will be compared in order to find out whether thereis any significant difference between them. The analysis will cover several issues, such as the position ofthe markers in the exemplifying construction, the kind of syntactic units which they link or the text-typeswhere they appear. The potential combination of for example and for instance with other markers ofexemplification will also be taken into account.