摘要：In the Department of Language and Speech (Corpus Linguistics
Section) of Nijmegen University a research project is being carried out
which aims to provide a survey of the frequency of occurrence and the
distribution of a range of syntactic structures in Modern British English.
The project makes use of the Nijmegen Corpus. This computerized
corpus, comprising approximately 130,000 words, has undergone a detailed
syntactic analysis and is available for exploratory studies. This article
reports on findings with regard to the clause patterns encountered in
the material.
