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标题：Lexical grammar: The GET-passive as a case in point
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作者：Christoph Rühlemann
期刊名称：ICAME Journal
印刷版ISSN：0801-5775
电子版ISSN：1502-5462
出版年度：2007
卷号：2007
期号：31
页码：111-111–128
出版社：School of Computing
摘要：This paper presents a corpus-linguistic case study on the GET-passive in conversation. The aim is twofold: the first aim is to discuss register distribution, association patterns and discourse factors governing the use of the GET-passive as evidenced in the British National Corpus. The second aim is to portray the GET-passive as an illustration of ‘lexical grammar’ (Sinclair 2000), that is, of the intricate integration of two areas traditionally separated from one another, lexis and grammar. It is argued that the GET-passive construction is poorly represented if described solely as a grammatical structure. Rather, its position on the grammar-lexis cline can be shown to be strikingly volatile. In the concluding section, some consequences arising from the notion of lexical grammar are outlined.