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Morphosyntactic Persistence in Spoken English : A Corpus Study at the Intersection of Variationist Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, and Discourse Analysis / Benedikt Szmrecsanyi.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 177Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2008]Copyright date: ©2006Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110190120
  • 9783110197808
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 425/.9 22
LOC classification:
  • PE1171
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Previous research on persistence -- phenomena -- Chapter 3 Method and data -- Chapter 4 Persistence in comparison strategy -- choice -- Chapter 5 Persistence in genitive choice -- Chapter 6 Persistence in future marker -- choice -- Chapter 7 Persistence in particle placement -- Chapter 8 Persistence in complementation strategy -- choice -- Chapter 9 Discussion of findings -- Chapter 10 Conclusion -- Backmatter
Summary: Language users are creatures of habit with a tendency to re-use morphosyntactic material that they have produced or heard before. In other words, linguistic patterns and tokens, once used, persist in discourse. The present book is the first large-scale corpus analysis to explore the determinants of this persistence, drawing on regression analyses of a variety of functional, discourse-functional, cognitive, psycholinguistic, and external factors. The case studies investigated include the alternation between synthetic and analytic comparatives, between the s-genitive and the of-genitive, between gerundial and infinitival complementation, particle placement, and future marker choice in a number of corpora sampling different spoken registers and geographical varieties of English. Providing a probabilistic framework for examining the ways in which persistence - among several other internal and external factors - influences speakers' linguistic choices, the book departs from most writings in the field in that it seeks to bridge several research traditions. While it is concerned, in a classically variationist spirit, with internal and external determinants of grammatical variation in English, it also draws heavily on ideas and evidence developed by psycholinguists and discourse analysts. In seeking to construct a comprehensive model of how speakers make linguistic choices, the study ultimately contributes to a theory of how spoken language works. The book is of interest to graduate students and researchers in variationist sociolinguistics, probabilistic linguistics, psycholinguistics, and computational linguistics.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Previous research on persistence -- phenomena -- Chapter 3 Method and data -- Chapter 4 Persistence in comparison strategy -- choice -- Chapter 5 Persistence in genitive choice -- Chapter 6 Persistence in future marker -- choice -- Chapter 7 Persistence in particle placement -- Chapter 8 Persistence in complementation strategy -- choice -- Chapter 9 Discussion of findings -- Chapter 10 Conclusion -- Backmatter

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Language users are creatures of habit with a tendency to re-use morphosyntactic material that they have produced or heard before. In other words, linguistic patterns and tokens, once used, persist in discourse. The present book is the first large-scale corpus analysis to explore the determinants of this persistence, drawing on regression analyses of a variety of functional, discourse-functional, cognitive, psycholinguistic, and external factors. The case studies investigated include the alternation between synthetic and analytic comparatives, between the s-genitive and the of-genitive, between gerundial and infinitival complementation, particle placement, and future marker choice in a number of corpora sampling different spoken registers and geographical varieties of English. Providing a probabilistic framework for examining the ways in which persistence - among several other internal and external factors - influences speakers' linguistic choices, the book departs from most writings in the field in that it seeks to bridge several research traditions. While it is concerned, in a classically variationist spirit, with internal and external determinants of grammatical variation in English, it also draws heavily on ideas and evidence developed by psycholinguists and discourse analysts. In seeking to construct a comprehensive model of how speakers make linguistic choices, the study ultimately contributes to a theory of how spoken language works. The book is of interest to graduate students and researchers in variationist sociolinguistics, probabilistic linguistics, psycholinguistics, and computational linguistics.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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