, 214 6.5.2 Conclusion: discourse-newness and VPAs, p.216

. .. Saliency, 216 6.6.1 Corpus study: applying the GH to VP anaphors

.. .. Conclusion,

, 3 Data: frequency of VPA functions, p.233

. .. Adjunct-choice,

, Different occurrence of action

. .. Polarity-choice,

. .. Agent-choice, 5.2.1 Agent-choice with modality contrasts, p.257

. .. Modal-choice, 260 7.6.2.2 Modal forms and meanings, p.261

.. .. Other,

.. .. Directive,

.. .. Adjuncts,

. .. Conclusion, 286 7.1. INTRODUCTION (354) He shops in women's. B: No, he doesn't, p.9

, The boys cheered. I did too, p.13

, As discussed earlier, VPAs are preferred over VPE if the anaphoric utterance specifies additional properties of the antecedent action by means of a non-contrastive adjunct

, A: He shops in women's. B: He never does it alone. / He does it all the time. / He does it because that's the only place he can find things his size. #He never does alone. / #He does all the time. / #He does because that's the only place he can find things his size, vol.13, p.10

. Miller, 2013) also pointed to the role of the VPA clause in the use of VPAs specifically. He observed that the use of VPAs to introduce a further description of the action as in the do it variants of (356) is especially common with do so, which is followed by a non-contrastive adjunct in 83% of finite occurrences in Miller, vol.357, 2011.

, According to Miller, this usage is encountered in all occurrences in his corpus where do so is not followed by an adjunct

, Nathan immediately bends down to pick them up but is jostled as he does so and stumbles, breaking his fall with his right hand? (COCA, Miller, p.124, 2013.

, The above examples illustrate some possible functions for the anaphoric clause and how they play into the use of VPE, do so or do it. In what follows we will seek to identify further such functions and investigate their role in the choice between do it and do this/that

, I am glad?Shouldn't say things like that, I suppose,' he simpered, 'but all my friends are going off and doing it. There will not be anybody of our age around here soon

, VPE is impossible as it stands since the VPA is a coordinate non-finite VP, but it becomes felicitous if there is no coordination (all of my friends are), despite the distance from the antecedent-trigger

, We're not getting married, but all of my friends are (doing it)

, Aside from the fact that Get him civilised is essentially a clarification of Civilisation just before, the use of do it here is the idea of 'success' associated with doing the action: the sentence may be paraphrased as something like, As regards (427)

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