Abstract
This paper reports the results of a usage, corpus-based study of the inverted though concessive construction in English. The inverted though concessive construction has received scant attention both in grammar and in linguistic analysis. Framed in a Construction Grammar as well as emergentist-based approach, the present study focuses on the description as well as distribution of this type of concessive construction in the Corpus of Contemporary American English. More precisely, it investigates the position of the construction within the concessive sentence, which constituents are attracted to the slots in the construction, which lexemes are attracted to each slot of the construction and the distribution of the construction across registers. The aim of the study is to check (i) (and eventually increase) the adequacy of grammatical descriptions, (ii) the degree to which the slots in the construction are restricted to specific constituents and (iii) whether any patterns seem to emerge both at the syntactic and lexical level.
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