The get-passive (and other get-constructions) have been the object of a good bit of work by corpus linguists. A lot of journal articles are behind paywalls, of course, but during a quick search I also ran into the following piece by Pierfranca Forchini that's not, and it provides some good overview material as well as giving the reader an idea of the kind of research that has been going on. It's for an audience of linguists, but it uses a Quirk & Greenbaum format for describing the constructions, and so is more "cross-platform friendly" than could have been the case:
http://www.openstarts.units.it/dspace/handle/10077/3231
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From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar on behalf of Craig Hancock
Sent: Tue 1/11/2011 12:42 PM
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Subject: Re: Predicate adjective?
TJ,
You may be right. In my blue collar adolescence, there was always
"get laid." I wonder how they set up the computer to read these. If they
focus on be verbs as auxiliary, it may come in under the radar.
CH
On 1/11/2011 9:25 AM, T. J. Ray wrote:
> Craig,
> Biber et al have no doubt done their homework, but it may be there are
> more passives in conversation that they recognize. Consider, for example,
> the notion that "get" may precisely serve for "have" to form the
> passive. If
> that be the case, then it is quite common to hear such constructions in
> conversation:
> John got run over.
> The soldier got killed by an IED.
> The house got burned last Thursday.
>
> tj
>
>
> On Monday 01/10/2011 at 5:32 pm, Craig Hancock wrote:
>> From the Longman Student Grammar (Biber et. al.)
>> "Although the long passive (with a by phrase)is much less common than
>> the short passive, it is similar in being most common in academic
>> writing, least common in conversation." Passives are rare in
>> conversation, relatively rare in fiction, much more common in
>> newswriting, most common in academic writing.
>>
>> Craig>
>>
>>
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