One of our most valuable capacities is our ability partly to predict what will come next in a text. But linguistic understanding of this remains very limited, especially in genres such as the short story where there is a staging of the clash between predi
1. Acknowledgements, pix-x; 2. List of figures and tables, pxi; 3. Chapter 1. Introduction: Narrative prospecting, p1-13; 4. Chapter 2. Collocation and corpus stylistics, p15-30; 5. Chapter 3. Lexical patternings in short stories, p31-51; 6. Chapter 4. To