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This paper provides a quantitative variationist analysis of the distribution of get- versus
be-passives in spoken Tyneside English. Taking data from the Diachronic Electronic Corpus of Tyneside
English (1960s to 2010), the paper uses mixed-effects modelling to examine a wide range of possible constraints on
the distribution of get versus be, some of which have been discussed at length in the literature
on the get-passive (e.g. subject animacy, adversative semantics) and some of which have received less attention
(e.g. grammatical person, tense, aspectuality). It demonstrates that the use of the get-passive is determined by
a complex combination of semantic and syntactic factors (subject animacy, telicity, non-neutral semantics, tense and grammatical
person). Moreover, it argues that, despite the dramatic rise in frequency of get-passives over time (with younger
speakers using them even more frequently than be-passives), most of the constraints remain in place and the
variant is pragmatically marked. This stands in sharp contrast to the findings of recent investigations into the
grammaticalization of get-passives in standard British and American English, which found that increased frequency
in those varieties was also accompanied by semantic bleaching and generalization.
期刊介绍:
English World-Wide has established itself as the leading and most comprehensive journal dealing with varieties of English. The focus is on scholarly discussions of new findings in the dialectology and sociolinguistics of the English-speaking communities (native and second-language speakers), but general problems of sociolinguistics, creolistics, language planning, multilingualism and modern historical sociolinguistics are included if they have a direct bearing on modern varieties of English. Although teaching problems are normally excluded, English World-Wide provides important background information for all those involved in teaching English throughout the world.