We Who Tweet: Pronominal Relative Clauses on Twitter

Abstract:

Pronominal relative clauses were previously reported to be unproductive in English, appearing only in Bible verses and proverbs. This corpus study of Twitter data shows that pronominal relative clauses are a productive part of contemporary English, and can be used in both literary and nonliterary registers.

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Bibtex:

@inproceedings{conrod2016we,
  title={We Who Tweet: Pronominal Relative Clauses on Twitter.},
  author={Conrod, Kirby and Tatman, Rachael and Koncel-Kedziorski, Rik},
  booktitle={CLiF},
  year={2016}
}