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2.3Absolute and normalised frequencies of ‘canonicity’, ‘markedness’, and ‘syntactic variation’ in six linguistic journals as well as range across articles within each journal
2.4Right collocates of ‘marked for’ and ‘unmarked for’ occurring at least three times in the corpus
2.5Normalised frequencies (per 100 articles) and range (% of articles in which the term occurred) of ‘canonical’, ‘non-canonical’, ‘marked’, ‘unmarked’, ‘standard’, and ‘non-standard’ in six journals
2.6Top five bigrams with the target item in the left position
4.1Subject positions in the four corpora of historical English
5.1Frequency of all existential there-constructions in the OBC (absolute and per million words/pmw), divided by five 40-year periods
5.2Frequency of contracted there’s in existential there-constructions in the OBC (absolute and per million words/pmw), divided by five 40-year periods
5.3Singular BE with plural notional subjects in the CEECE, relative frequencies
5.4Singular BE with plural notional subjects in two OBC periods matching Nevalainen’s (2009) periodisation, absolute and relative frequencies
5.5Singular BE with plural notional subjects, breakdown of OBC periods, absolute and relative frequencies
5.6Existential constructions with plural notional subjects in the two OBC subperiods; frequencies: absolute, pmw, relative (where applicable)
5.7Agreement patterns in existential there-constructions containing number (there * a number of…, N = 341; absolute and relative frequencies)
5.8Agreement patterns in existential there-constructions containing many (there * many…, N = 494; absolute and relative frequencies)
5.9Agreement patterns in existential there-constructions containing dozen (there * * dozen …, N = 92; absolute and relative frequencies)
5.10Agreement patterns in existential there-constructions with coordinated notional subjects (there * NN and NN, N = 706, 682 tokens with date; absolute and relative frequencies)
6.1The most prolific users of the demonstrative ProTag construction in the Chadwyck–Healey English Drama Collection
6.2The ten most common evaluative expressions that co-occur with demonstrative ProTags in the Chadwyck–Healey English Drama Collection
9.3Cleft-related variables and levels used in data annotation
9.4Evaluation-related variables and levels used in data annotation
10.2Mean reaction times in milliseconds and standard deviations (SD)
10.3Mean ratings and standard deviations (SD) across conditions in Experiment 2
10.4Fixed effect structure of final model for PrepRTSc (spillover region)
10.5Fixed effect structure of final model for NounRTLogSc (wrap-up region)
10.6Fixed effect structure of final model for SentenceRTLogSc (whole sentence)
12.1Realisations of the intro-it across the basic clause patterns of the English language
12.3Overview of analysed sentences per corpus (number of intro-its per thousand sentences/pts)
13.2Annotation scheme used for the corpus analysis with explanations
14.1Plus- and minus-terminology adapted from Rüdiger (2019: 48)
14.2Dataset used in the analysis of minus-plurals and overtly marked plurals
14.4Language families and languages (including ISO 639-3 codes) in the analysed ACE and VOICE sections