[Corpora-List] BE, HAVE, and DO

[njbruce]

Hi Chris,
The Frank Sinatra corpus threw up a much higher incidence of Do and Be, often in close proximity to each other.
Nigel

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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.)

Thanks in advance

Chris
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