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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Hi all,</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>I have been doing a Wordsmith Tools concordance using as search terms ‘activity/activities’.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Doing the same concordance using the search term activit* gives the same concordance list, but a rather different set of collocates when doing MI3, log like scores et al. </FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Which is the ‘correct’ search term if I want to know about activity AND activities (as a lemma)?</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Thanks in advance,</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Duncan Hunter </FONT></P>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> corpora-bounces@uib.no on behalf of J BUTTERFIELD<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thu 06/12/2007 13:10<BR><B>To:</B> corpora@uib.no<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Corpora-List] Corpus-based research on attitudinal sentenceadjuncts<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>Can anybody point me to corpus research on sentence adjuncts which embody the speaker's attitude to what they are saying. I am particularly interested in: personally, in my view, in my opinion, and frankly.</DIV>
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<DIV>Many thanks. </DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>