Exploring the Lexis-Grammar Interface -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Setting the scene -- Technology and phraseology -- 1. On forgotten ideas (and forgotten scholars) -- 2. On two early corpus-driven studies -- 3. On corpus tools for phraseology extraction: PIE -- 4. On Sinclair's model of extended lexical units -- 5. Illustrative research programme -- 6. Locating corpus studies in a wider frame -- 7. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Corpus-driven approaches to grammar -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Lexical priming -- 3. The idiom principle -- 4. Hunston and Francis's Pattern Grammar -- 5. Some conclusions -- References -- Valency - item-specificity and idiom principle -- 1. Open choice and idiom principle -- 2. Valency as an abstraction -- 3. Unpredictability of valency patterns -- 4. Lexical aspects of valency -- 5. Valency and the idiom principle -- References -- Fowler's Modern English Usage at the interface of lexis and grammar -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The concept of usage -- 3. Fowler's Modern English Usage as a type of reference book -- 4. MEU - more of a grammar or more of a dictionary? -- 5. Three test cases for the lexis-grammar interface -- 6. Summary and conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- The psycholinguistic reality of collocation and semantic prosody (1) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Experiment 1: The effects of collocation upon lexical access -- 3. Experiment 2: The effects of semantic prosody upon lexical access -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Part II. Considering the particulars -- The lexicogrammar of present-day Indian English -- 1. Introduction: Indian English as an endonormatively stabilised variety -- 2. Structural nativisation at the lexis-grammar interface of Indian English.

3. Concluding remarks: Large and small corpora as complementary databases -- References -- The semantic and grammatical overlap of as and that -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Terminology -- 3. Methods -- 4. Analysis -- 4.1 Hypotheses -- 4.2 Etymology -- 4.3 Development of that -- 4.4 Development of as -- 4.5 The development of as as a complementizer -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- The historical development of the verb doubt -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Doubt in Present Day English -- 3. Doubt in affirmative sentences -- 4. Doubt in negative sentences -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- The grammatical properties of recurrent phrases with body-part nouns -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Material and method -- 3. The fixedness of phrases -- 4. The N + X + N pattern -- 5. The N1 to N1 pattern -- 6. The N1 to N1 pattern with body-part nouns -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- A corpus-based investigation of cognate object constructions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A short portrait of COCs -- 3. A usage-based network of COCs -- 4. Summary and conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- Revisiting the evidence for objects in English -- 1. Evidence for objects -- 2. Reconsidering active-passive relationships -- 3. A false analogy between buy and give -- 4. Prepositional complements of transitive verbs -- 5. Further notes on passivisation -- 6. Lexical findings: Passives of traditional ditransitives -- 7. Summary: Basic structures -- References -- Lexico-functional categories and complex collocations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The category 'intensifiers' -- 3. Corpus data and methodology -- 4. Results and discussion -- 5. Summary and final remarks -- References -- Polysemy and lexical priming -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The corpus -- 3. Results and discussion -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Local textual functions of move in newspaper story patterns -- 1. Introduction.

2. Lexis, grammar, text and the study of corpora -- 3. Newspaper articles: Textual structure and lexical patterns -- 4. Methodology -- 5. Distribution of move follow* across sections of The Guardian -- 6. Meanings following move follow -- 7. Textual structure and the position of move follow -- 8. Textual structure and news values -- 9. Conclusions -- References -- Appendix -- Loud signatures -- 1. The background -- 2. Humorous opinion pieces -- 3. Evaluation -- 4. Methodology -- 5. Comparisons -- 6. Rudeness -- 7. Figurative language as part of the signature -- 8. Conclusion -- References -- Index -- The series Studies in Corpus Linguistics.