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<div>Hi Chris,</div>
<div><font face="arial">The Frank Sinatra corpus threw up a much higher incidence of Do and Be, often in close proximity to each other.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial">Nigel</font></div>
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<font face="Tahoma" color="#000000" size="2"><b>From:</b> corpora-bounces@uib.no [corpora-bounces@uib.no] On Behalf Of CRuehlemann@aol.com [CRuehlemann@aol.com]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, February 19, 2011 2:19 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> CORPORA@uib.no<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Corpora-List] BE, HAVE, and DO<br>
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<div>Can anybody point me to a corpus study investigating whether the primary verbs BE, HAVE, and DO are used more frequently as auxiliary verbs or main verbs and whether register/genre may play a role in that? (I can't seem to find relevant information in
corpus grammars.)</div>
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<div>Thanks in advance</div>
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<div>Chris</div>
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