@article{Kang_2022, title={On Keep and Keep on: A Corpora-based Analysis}, volume={9}, url={https://journals.scholarpublishing.org/index.php/ASSRJ/article/view/12257}, DOI={10.14738/assrj.95.12257}, abstractNote={<p>The main goal of this paper is to provide a comparative analysis of <em>keep</em> and <em>keep on</em> in the TV Corpus and the British National Corpus. With respect to the TV Corpus, it is interesting to note that <em>keep</em> was favored over <em>keep on</em> from the 1950s to the 2010s. A further point to note is that <em>keep</em> and <em>keep on</em> reached a peak (28,586 tokens vs. 1,303 tokens) in the 2010s. In addition, it is worth pointing out that <em>keep </em>was always preferable to <em>keep on</em> from the 1950s to the 2010s. With respect to the BNC, it is probably worthwhile pointing out that <em>keep</em> is 71.42% the same as <em>keep on </em>in the seven genres of the BNC. When it comes to the Euclidean distance between <em>keep</em> and <em>keep on</em>, the former is the nearest from the latter in the fiction genre, whereas the former is the furthest from the latter in the spoken genre. Quite interestingly, the BNC clearly shows that <em>keep going</em> and <em>keep on going</em> are the most preferred (430 tokens vs. 24 tokens) by the British. Finally, it is significant to note that 43.58% of thirty nine gerunds are the collocations of both <em>keep</em> and <em>keep on</em>.</p>}, number={5}, journal={Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal}, author={Kang, Namkil}, year={2022}, month={May}, pages={12–21} }