Corpora: corpus evidence that runs counter to intuition?

From: Sebastian Hoffmann (sebhoff@es.unizh.ch)
Date: Thu Oct 18 2001 - 14:15:28 MET DST

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    Dear corpus list subscribers

    I'm looking for "nice" examples where corpus evidence (radically)
    runs counter to intuition (of a native speaker) or to standard
    perception of the language. Of course there are many findings in
    corpus-based studies that could not have been established by
    introspection - but I'm looking for the kind which would result in a
    "wow - I wouldn't have thought that!"-reaction from the average
    language user. ;-)
    Many thanks in advance!

    Sebastian Hoffmann
    University of Zurich 

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