[Corpora-List] you vs. contractions

[Adam Kilgarriff]

Przemek,

 

 
<http://www.sketchengine.co.uk/bnc/run.cgi/view?q=q%22you%22+%22are%22;corpn
ame=BNC&refs=%3Dbncdoc.id> 21497  hits, 1075 pages such as the below, of
"you are" available at the Word Sketch Engine. http://www.sketchengine.co.uk
<http://www.sketchengine.co.uk/> 

 

Depending on your mail reader, you can hit the number and go straight to the
search result.  You'll need a WSE username and password, available by return
of email at the URL above.

 

Any moderately formal registers that use "you" (eg official leaflets) will
not use contractions.

 

Best,

 

Adam

 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-corpora at lists.uib.no[mailto:owner-corpora at lists.uib.no] On
Behalf Of Przemek Kaszubski
Sent: 19 July 2005 17:59
To: CORPORA at hd.uib.no
Subject: [Corpora-List] you vs. contractions

 

Dear List Members,

 

Are there any registers/genres in English in which the pronoun "you" 

co-occurs (textually) with fully written rather than contracted forms? I 

tried to extract such texts from the BNC using the SARA interface but 

could not. If anyone can point to relevant research or help with 

extraction, I'd be most grateful.

 

Thanks!

 

Przemek

 

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