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A Corpus Stylistics Approach to Contemporary Present-tense Narrative
Reiko Ikeo, Eri Shigematsu and Masayuki Nakao
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature 43] 2024
► pp. xi–xvi

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Table 3.1Word counts of two corpora

Table 4.1Frequencies of discourse presentation in PREST and PAST

Table 4.2Word counts of discourse presentation in PREST and PAST

Table 5.1Frequencies of personal pronouns, proper nouns and determiner in PREST and PAST

Table 5.2Frequencies of proper nouns in 3rd- and 1st- person narratives in PREST and PAST

Table 5.3The most frequent proper nouns in PREST and PAST

Table 5.4Frequencies of adjectives, attributive phrases and predicative uses in PREST and PAST

Table 5.5Frequently used adjectives in PREST and PAST

Table 5.6Attributive and predicative uses of adjectives in serious/popular sections in PREST and PAST

Table 5.7Frequencies of finite verbs in PREST and PAST

Table 5.8Frequencies of phrasal verbs in each discourse presentation mode and narration in PREST and PAST

Table 5.9Phrasal verbs occurring more than four times in PREST and PAST

Table 5.10Frequencies of verb phrases in progressive aspect in PREST and PAST

Table 5.11Frequencies of progressives in discourse presentation in PREST

Table 5.12Frequencies of progressives in discourse presentation in PAST

Table 5.13Frequencies of progressives in narration in PREST and PAST

Table 5.14Frequencies of present progressives in thought presentation in PREST

Table 5.15Distribution of functions of the present progressive in direct speech in PREST and PAST

Table 6.1Frequencies of speech presentation categories in PREST and PAST

Table 6.2Word counts and mean lengths of speech presentation categories

Table 6.3Frequencies of FDS in serious/popular divisions of PREST and PAST

Table 6.4Frequencies of DS in serious/popular divisions of PREST and PAST

Table 6.5Linking adverbials in NRS in PREST and PAST

Table 6.6Positions of reporting clauses in DS in PREST and PAST

Table 6.7Word counts of Sub DS-PREST and Sub DS-PAST

Table 6.8Frequencies of finite verbs in Sub DS-PREST and Sub DS-PAST

Table 6.9Key POS tags in Sub DS-PREST

Table 6.10List of keywords in Sub-PREST

Table 6.11Frequencies of usages of “time” in two sub-corpora

Table 6.12Frequencies of usages of “tell” in two sub-corpora

Table 6.13Syntactic subjects and objects of “tell” in two sub-corpora

Table 6.14Distribution of the meanings of “just” in two sub-corpora

Table 6.15Key POS tags in Sub DS-PAST

Table 6.16List of keywords in Sub DS-PAST

Table 6.17Frequencies of set phrases with “at” in two sub-corpora

Table 6.18Usage of “could” and “would” in Sub DS-PAST

Table 6.19Usage of “could” and “would” in Sub DS-PREST

Table 6.20References of “they” in the two sub-corpora

Table 6.21Four-grams in Sub DS-PREST

Table 6.22Four-grams in Sub DS-PAST

Table 6.23Key 4-grams in Sub DS-PREST

Table 6.24Key 4-grams in Sub DS-PAST

Table 6.25Raw frequencies of IS in each narrative type in PREST and PAST

Table 6.26Raw frequencies of the most frequent reporting verbs in IS in PREST and PAST

Table 6.27Frequencies of NRSA and NRSAp in PREST and PAST

Table 6.28Mean lengths of NRSA and NRSAp in PREST and PAST

Table 6.29Distribution of NRSA in 1st-person and 3rd-person narrative in PREST and PAST

Table 7.1Frequencies of writing presentation categories in PREST and PAST

Table 7.2Word counts and mean lengths of writing presentation categories

Table 7.3Frequencies of FDW and DW in serious/popular divisions of two corpora

Table 7.4Verbs in NRWA(p) as writing actions in PREST and PAST

Table 8.1Frequencies of thought presentation categories in PREST and PAST

Table 8.2Word counts and mean lengths of thought presentation categories

Table 8.3Frequencies of direct forms in PREST and PAST

Table 8.4Frequencies of features associated with FDT in PREST and PAST

Table 8.5Frequent categories preceding FDT in PREST

Table 8.6Frequent categories preceding FIT in PAST

Table 8.7Number and type of occurrences of N preceding FDT in PREST

Table 8.8Number and type of occurrences of N preceding FIT in PAST

Table 8.9Frequent categories preceding FIT in PREST

Table 8.10Number and type of occurrences of N preceding FIT in PREST

Table 8.11Distribution of IT in PREST

Table 8.12Distribution of IT in PAST

Table 8.13Reporting verbs of IT which occur more than 4 times in PREST

Table 8.14Reporting verbs of IT which occur more than 4 times in PAST

Table 8.15Frequencies of NRTA and NRTAp in PREST and PAST

Table 8.16Mean lengths of NRTA and NRTAp in PREST and PAST

Table 8.17Distribution of NRTA(p) in PREST

Table 8.18Distribution of NRTA(p) in PAST

Table 8.19Mental act verbs of NRTA(p) occurring more than 4 times in PREST

Table 8.20Mental act verbs of NRTA(p) occurring more than 4 times in PAST

Table 8.21Distribution of NI in PREST

Table 8.22Distribution of NI in PAST

Table 9.1Frequencies of N in PREST and PAST

Table 9.2Word counts and mean lengths of N

Table 9.3Frequencies of finite verbs and attributive adjective in Sub N-PREST

Table 9.4Lemmas collocating with “I” in Sub N-PREST-1st

Table 9.5Lemmas collocating with “I” in Sub N-PAST-1st

Table 9.6Frequencies of portmanteau tags (N-) in PREST and PAST

Table 9.7Word counts and mean length of portmanteau tags (N-) in PREST and PAST

Table 9.8Distribution of N-FDT in PREST

Table 9.9Frequent perception verbs in Sub N corpora

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