Clausal and phrasal coordination in recent American English

IF 1 2区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory Pub Date : 2022-11-25 DOI:10.1515/cllt-2022-0035
Merja Kytö, Erik Smitterberg
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Abstract Several studies have shown that there is considerable cross-genre variation as regards what linguistic units tend to be coordinated by and. While literate, expository writing favors coordination of phrasal units such as noun phrases, coordinated units are more often clausal (e.g., main or subordinate clauses) in speech-related texts. This difference has been attested in studies that focus exclusively on coordination as well as in macro-level studies of co-variation among a large number of linguistic features. However, this register differentiation has increased over time: studies of Early and Late Modern English point to less pronounced differences among registers than those attested in the present-day language. This study fills a gap in research by considering data on coordination by and from the middle of the 20th century, a period that does not belong fully to either Late Modern or Present-Day English, and the late 20th and early 21st century, and thus ties diachronic and synchronic research on register variation in coordination together. We also examine language from films and television in order to complement historical findings for speech-related language with data on registers that arose in the 20th century.
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现代美国英语中的小句和短语协调
一些研究表明,在哪些语言单位倾向于由和协调方面存在相当大的跨体裁差异。虽然有文化,说明文写作倾向于短语单位的协调,如名词短语,协调单位更经常是小句(例如,主句或从句)在言语相关的文本。这种差异已经在专门关注协调的研究以及大量语言特征之间共变的宏观研究中得到证实。然而,这种语域差异随着时间的推移而增加:对早期和晚期现代英语的研究表明,与现代语言相比,语域之间的差异并不那么明显。本研究考虑了20世纪中期前后的协调数据,填补了研究的空白,这一时期既不完全属于现代英语晚期,也不完全属于现代英语晚期,也不完全属于20世纪末和21世纪初,从而将协调中语域变化的历时性和共时性研究联系在一起。我们还研究了电影和电视中的语言,以便用20世纪出现的语域数据来补充与语言相关的历史发现。
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期刊介绍: Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (CLLT) is a peer-reviewed journal publishing high-quality original corpus-based research focusing on theoretically relevant issues in all core areas of linguistic research, or other recognized topic areas. It provides a forum for researchers from different theoretical backgrounds and different areas of interest that share a commitment to the systematic and exhaustive analysis of naturally occurring language. Contributions from all theoretical frameworks are welcome but they should be addressed at a general audience and thus be explicit about their assumptions and discovery procedures and provide sufficient theoretical background to be accessible to researchers from different frameworks. Topics Corpus Linguistics Quantitative Linguistics Phonology Morphology Semantics Syntax Pragmatics.
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