Make us difficult
Seth Mehl · English World-Wide A Journal of Varieties of English · 2020
Abstract This paper introduces a previously undiscussed English construction, termed themake us difficultconstruction. Examples of the construction are presented, from theInternational Corpus of Englishand theCorpus of Global Web-Based English, and a quantitative analysis is conducted of the construction’s text frequency and variant rates. Quantitative data on specific usage patterns is employed to inform an analysis of the construction and its productivity, and recommendations are made for future research.