Pub Date : 2024-01-24DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2023-0041
Yingying Cai, Hendrik De Smet
Functional explanations of alternations often invoke semantic contrast between alternates. In some cases, however, new alternations may arise not to code contrast but simply because the grammar supports multiple roughly equivalent solutions to the same coding problem. Our study illustrates this by exploring the history of English prepositional phrase complements (PPCs) to mental predicates, with a special focus on about and at (as in everyone was enthusiastic about the project). It is shown that about saw a dramatic extension in its use as a PPC marker, resulting in various new alternation contexts. These developments are concomitant to changes in the general semantic structure of about that resulted in stronger grammatical sanction to its use as a PPC marker. Compared to about, at has a far more stable semantic profile overall, contributing to greater stability in its use as a PPC marker as well. In other words, distributional changes in the system of PPCs, and the new alternations that arise as a result, are a side effect of changes in the overall semantic profiles of the prepositions used to mark PPCs.
对交替现象的功能性解释通常援引交替现象之间的语义对比。然而，在某些情况下，新的交替出现可能并不是为了编码对比，而仅仅是因为语法支持对同一编码问题的多种大致等效的解决方案。我们的研究通过探索英语介词短语补语（PPCs）到心理谓词的历史来说明这一点，并特别关注 about 和 at（如每个人都对项目充满热情）。研究表明，about 作为 PPC 标记的使用范围急剧扩大，产生了各种新的交替语境。这些发展是与 about 的一般语义结构的变化同步进行的，这些变化导致其作为 PPC 标记的使用在语法上得到了更有力的支持。与 about 相比，at 的整体语义结构要稳定得多，这也使其作为 PPC 标记的使用具有更大的稳定性。换句话说，PPCs 系统的分布变化以及由此产生的新交替，是用来标记 PPCs 的介词整体语义轮廓变化的副作用。
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Pub Date : 2024-01-22DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2023-0045
Jane Klavan
This paper investigates three morphosyntactic alternations in Estonian – those between the exterior locative cases allative, adessive, and ablative and the corresponding postpositions peale ‘onto’, peal ‘on’, and pealt ‘off’. It is assumed that the influence of different predictors on speakers’ choices will be relatively stable in terms of the direction of those predictors, but the strength of these will vary. For each alternation, a random sample of the two outcomes (case vs. postposition) from the Estonian National Corpus is used, resulting in a total of 3,000 data points. Using properties of the landmark phrase as independent variables in mixed-effects logistic regression models, the choice of postpositions over case-marked realizations is predicted. The models fitted to the data confirm that the direction of the eight predictors investigated is the same across the alternations, with freqRatio, lemma, and mobility making the most significant contribution to the fit of all three models. The study further shows that the two alternating pairs that have a higher global frequency in Estonian (allative ∼ peale and adessive ∼ peal) behave in a similar way with respect to the predictors under study; the third, less frequent alternation (ablative ∼ pealt), differs from the other two in terms of the number and type of predictors that make a significant contribution to the model fit.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-17DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2023-0165
Dirk Pijpops, Karlien Franco, Dirk Speelman, Freek Van de Velde
The research paradigm of alternation studies is forming an increasingly large share of the empirical foundations of usage-based linguistics. As the paradigm is essentially an amalgamation of research traditions from various subfields of linguistics, including sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, and construction grammar, it sports various definitions of the concept of “alternation” and various ways of conducting an alternation study, which are not always compatible. The present special issue is therefore intended to bring researchers from various backgrounds in usage-based linguistics together to see how we can deal with these issues. This introduction first presents the various ways of defining an alternation and discusses the differences between them and how these definitions determine the methodological set-up of an alternation study. Next, the contributions to the special issue are each in turn summarized and related to one another.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-17DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2021-0150
Chloé Diskin-Holdaway, Barbara F. Kelly, Joanne Arciuli, Beena Ahmed
The Bear in a Window project captures Australian children’s experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic. We focused on children’s experiences of lockdown, or extended periods of home confinement, ranging from one to 100 days at a time between 2020 and 2021. Using the online experimental platform, Gorilla, we invited children aged 3–12 to record themselves telling stories about the positives and negatives of life in lockdown to our mascot, Covey Bear. Recordings were saved on the Gorilla server and orthographically and automatically transcribed using Sonix, with manual correction. Preliminary analyses of 18 children’s recordings illustrate several emergent topics, reflecting children’s experiences of the pandemic in the areas of health and wellbeing; education and online learning; digital engagement; family and friends; relationships; and mealtimes and food. We found that in their storytelling, children engaged in a wide variety of discourse strategies to hold the floor, indicate focus, and transition to different topics. The project will contribute to a national public collection of Australian children’s COVID-19 stories and create a digital repository of Australian children’s talk that will be available to researchers across different disciplines.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-09DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2023-0054
Eva Zehentner
Abstract The present paper investigates variation between nominal and prepositional adjuncts of time as in, for example, [on] that day, they left. The main goals are (i) to assess potential changes in the distribution of these variants in the history of English, specifically from Middle English to Late Modern English (1150–1914), and (ii) to test which factors most strongly impact the choice between the two variants, with a focus on the impact of different complexity measures. To address these questions, the paper makes use of data from the Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpora of Historical English (PPCME2; PPCEME; PPCMBE), explored by means of logistic regression modelling. The results suggest that there is no dramatic, sweeping change in this abstract alternation over time, but that this variation may mainly plays out on lower, noun-specific levels.
摘要 本文研究了时间的名词性从句和介词性从句之间的变异，例如，[on] that day, they left。主要目的是：(i) 评估这些变体的分布在英语历史上的潜在变化，特别是从中古英语到晚期现代英语（1150-1914 年）；(ii) 测试哪些因素对这两种变体之间的选择影响最大，重点是不同复杂度测量的影响。为了解决这些问题，本文使用了宾夕法尼亚-赫尔辛基历史英语解析语料库（PPCME2; PPCEME; PPCMBE）的数据，并通过逻辑回归模型进行了探讨。结果表明，这种抽象交替并没有随着时间的推移而发生巨大的、全面的变化，但这种变化可能主要体现在较低的、特定名词的层面上。
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Pub Date : 2024-01-09DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2022-0069
Matt Hunt Gardner, V. Kostadinova
Abstract The following paper examines the use of the stable sociolinguistic variable (-ing) across two different interview modalities: “classic” in-person sociolinguistic interviews and identical interviews conducted remotely over online video chat. The goal of this research was to test whether a change in modality results in style-shifting, as quantified by different rates of formal/standard [-ɪŋ] versus informal/non-standard [-ɪn]. Results show that when the internal linguistic constraints governing (-ing) variation are taken into account, there is not a significant difference between modalities, suggesting both modalities are equally formal (or informal). This suggests that remote online video chats are a viable method for collecting sociolinguistic data.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-09DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2023-0035
Piotr Wyroślak, Dylan Glynn
Abstract This study considers an approach to alternations in which constructions are understood as non-binary choices between non-discrete usage patterns. To these ends, it seeks to develop usage-based methods for the identification and description of constructions without presupposing their level of formal granularity. Instead of deciding a priori what level of granularity is best for making generalizations about grammatical structure, the study aims to integrate the dimension of taxonomic variation into the analysis by treating constructions as combinatory emergent patterns, rather than predetermined discrete objects. Using the behavioural profile approach, we examine a 12-way lexico-constructional choice in Polish arising from the combinatory possibilities of three paradigmatic relations: grammatical aspect (perfective vs. imperfective); grammatical prefix (wy-, za-, na-); and predicate choice from the semantic frame of “stuff-fill” (-pchać/-pychać ‘push’, -pełnić/-pełniać ‘fill’). We analyse the combinations in a sample of 765 examples extracted from the National Corpus of Polish. The results reveal patterns in the use of the prefix-aspect-verb composites, interpretable as speaker choice, and show how those combinatory patterns can be accounted for without the need for positing discrete alternations. Furthermore, although only exploratory, such results call into question the descriptive validity of the traditional grammatical alternation.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-04DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2023-0034
Dylan Glynn, Olaf Mikkelsen
Depending on the theory of language employed, the paradigmatic and lexical variation associated with a given composite form-meaning pair is treated in different ways. First, variation can be treated as independent of the constructional semantics, an approach typical of modular theories. Second, paradigmatic variation can be considered indicative of constructional semantics; its variation constituting networks of closely related families of constructions. This is a common approach in construction grammar. Third, there exists a trend in cognitive linguistics and construction grammar to treat grammatical constructions as non-discrete emergent clusters of many-to-many form-meaning mappings. This study explores the possibility of extending current methods for quantitatively modelling construction grammar to an approach that does not assume discrete grammatical constructions. The speaker choice examined consists of the English future constructions will and BE going to and their use in contemporary informal British English. The constructions are examined with the behavioural profile approach. Three different regression modelling methods are applied to the grammatical alternations, each operationalizing one of the theoretical assumptions. While the results show that all three approaches are feasible and comparable in predictive accuracy, model interpretation becomes increasingly difficult with added complexity.
根据所采用的语言理论，与特定复合形义对相关的范式和词汇变异有不同的处理方法。首先，变异可以被视为独立于构式语义，这是模块理论的典型方法。其次，范式变异可被视为构式语义的指示性变异；其变异构成了密切相关的构式族网络。这是构式语法中常见的方法。第三，认知语言学和构式语法中存在一种趋势，即把语法构式视为多对多形式-意义映射的非离散的新兴集群。本研究探讨了将目前的构式语法定量建模方法扩展到不假定离散语法构式的方法的可能性。所研究的说话人选择包括英语未来结构 will 和 BE going to，以及它们在当代非正式英国英语中的使用。我们采用行为特征法对这些结构进行了研究。语法交替使用了三种不同的回归建模方法，每种方法都对其中一种理论假设进行了操作。结果表明，这三种方法都是可行的，而且预测准确性相当，但随着复杂性的增加，模型解释变得越来越困难。
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Pub Date : 2024-01-04DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2021-0145
Ashley Blake, Ewa Dąbrowska
Our research explores the relationship between cognition and language. The focus of this paper is to discuss how we embarked upon remote data collection with children during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this study we investigate cognitive processes of non-verbal intelligence, working memory, implicit statistical learning, and speed of automatization (measured with the multiple-trial Tower of Hanoi puzzle). Here we focus primarily on the speed of automatization, partly because of theoretical interest, and because it is more difficult to adapt to an online format due to the motor component of the task. We established a hybrid method of data collection where the researcher was present online to guide children through a battery of language and cognitive tasks. We used a videoconferencing platform, a digital visualiser, and a physical puzzle which we posted to each child prior to commencing the research sessions. We also designed an online version of the puzzle with support from the Getting Data project. We discuss the methodology of our study and the lessons learned during remote data collection.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2021-0148
Junyan Guo
Abstract This study reports a preliminary exploration of the online collection of language assessment data in the author’s PhD project under the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic. It describes the challenges the author met, details the adaptations she made, and delineates its implications. Specifically, the data collection in this project involved remotely delivering three vocabulary tests and one speaking task to EFL learners in mainland China and collecting the results of these tests. In this process, the author trialed, pilot-tested, and compared three test-administering modes: first an asynchronous mode (Wenjuanwang), then a synchronous mode (Tencent Meeting), and finally a return to an asynchronous mode (Super Star Learning). It is hoped that this exploratory investigation into these technology-enhanced online methods will add a different perspective and present a multifaceted view for data collection of language assessment research during and after this pandemic.
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