[Lexicog] corpus + cognitive linguistics. WAS: Interesting lexical discoveries

[jasper holmes]

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: jasper holmes [mailto:jasper.holmes at ucl.ac.uk]
> Sent: 04 February 2004 11:28
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> > I expect -- but have not checked -- that large spoken corpora may
> > favor the
> > insurance sense of total/V.
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> I suspect not, because this use of total is (I think) only common in
> American English. Over here we would say 'I wrote my car off' (at
> least *I*
> would).
>

I should have said: I suspect this use is not common in the BNC.

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