come + [noise/manner of movement] V-ing

Part of language	Late Modern English (1800-now)
Meaning of the construction	Someone or something moves towards a reference point in a specified manner, often in a manner that is fast, sudden, uncontrolled, noisy, or otherwise overwhelming.

Construction elements

Colloprofile for Element 3

Examples

Example 1

Text	The back door burst open and six-year-old Sally came running excitedly into the room .

Example 2

Text	Then came thunder out of the east as rank after rank of tanks came roaring past, plunged through the infantry and turned north for the kill .

Example 3

Text	People came running with lanterns and torches, and soon hundreds of people were hurrying to the house .

Example 4

Text	A second or two later, everything came crashing down in a big heap on the railway line below .

Research

Research Question	Finding
Identifying semantic sub-constructions of the V-ing pattern	[provisional] In addition to demonstrating the usefulness of the QuACC analysis tool, the case study has shown ways in which measures of productivity, t-SNE plots of slot filler embeddings, and different kinds of collexeme analysis can help identify which sub-patterns are likely construction candidates. In particular, it has demonstrated how quantitative analyses can determine which slot restrictions are relevant for delineating a candidate, at which level(s) of schematicity they can be posited, and how restrictions on different slots co-vary.

Research Question

Finding

Identifying semantic sub-constructions of the V-ing pattern

[provisional] In addition to demonstrating the usefulness of the QuACC analysis tool, the case study has shown ways in which measures of productivity, t-SNE plots of slot filler embeddings, and different kinds of collexeme analysis can help identify which sub-patterns are likely construction candidates. In particular, it has demonstrated how quantitative analyses can determine which slot restrictions are relevant for delineating a candidate, at which level(s) of schematicity they can be posited, and how restrictions on different slots co-vary.

Metadata

Date Created	2024-11-28
Annotator	Malin Patel
References	Gournay, Lucie. 2023. Implementing quantitative data in a qualitative contrastive approach: the case of COME+V-ING. Anglophonia 35. https://doi.org/10.4000/11qbf.

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