Morphosyntactic Persistence in Spoken English

Morphosyntactic Persistence in Spoken English
Title Morphosyntactic Persistence in Spoken English PDF eBook
Author Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
Publisher Walter de Gruyter
Pages 265
Release 2008-08-22
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 3110197804

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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.

Morphosyntactic Categories and the Expression of Possession

Morphosyntactic Categories and the Expression of Possession
Title Morphosyntactic Categories and the Expression of Possession PDF eBook
Author Kersti Börjars
Publisher John Benjamins Publishing
Pages 354
Release 2013-01-01
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9027255822

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The analysis of constructions denoting possession (particularly, but not exclusively, in English) has long presented a challenge to morpho-syntactic theory and has been a topic of debate for some time. The papers presented here afford thought-provoking insights into the morphosyntactic nature of possessive markers under a variety of theoretical frameworks. The distribution of phrases expressing possession is explored in a range of languages (including English, Swedish, Urdu and West Flemish), with rigorous exploitation of corpus data and careful statistical analysis. Descriptions and analyses represent the state of the art in research into possessive constructions. Particular attention is paid to the English possessive 's, both synchronically and diachronically. This volume is essential for scholars interested in theoretical and corpus-based linguistics, morphosyntactic constructions, and the expression of possession.

The Mental Corpus

The Mental Corpus
Title The Mental Corpus PDF eBook
Author John R. Taylor
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 330
Release 2012-05-03
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 0199290806

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John Taylor argues that an individual's knowledge of a language is a repository of memories. Similarities between items lead to generalizations then used to generate new expressions. He makes a compelling contribution to understanding language and the operations of the mind. The book will appeal to linguists, philosophers, and cognitive scientists.

Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora

Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora
Title Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora PDF eBook
Author J. Beal
Publisher Springer
Pages 266
Release 2007-06-27
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 0230223931

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A range of electronic corpora is increasingly accessible via the WWW and CD-ROM. This development coincided with improved standards governing the collecting, encoding and archiving of such data. This book looks at developing similar standards for enriching and preserving unconventional data: dialects, child language and bilingual databases.

Corpus Linguistics. Volume 2

Corpus Linguistics. Volume 2
Title Corpus Linguistics. Volume 2 PDF eBook
Author Anke Lüdeling
Publisher Walter de Gruyter
Pages 606
Release 2009-03-26
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 3110213885

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In vielen Bereichen der Linguistik werden Textkorpora, Sprachkorpora oder multimodale Korpora heute als empirische Basis verwendet. Aufbauend auf Methoden des 19. Jahrhunderts haben sich dabei mit dem Aufkommen von elektronischen Korpora seit den 1940ern neue Standards für linguistische Annotation und Vorverarbeitung sowie für qualitative und quantitative Untersuchungen entwickelt. Das Handbuch bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über Geschichte, Methoden und Anwendungen der Korpuslinguistik. Die einzelnen Überblicks- und Spezialartikel sind von Experten und Expertinnen der jeweiligen Gebiete geschrieben. Dabei wird auf klare und umfassende Darstellung, eine gute Vernetzung zwischen den Artikel und weiterführende Hinweise Wert gelegt.

Null Subjects in Englishes

Null Subjects in Englishes
Title Null Subjects in Englishes PDF eBook
Author Verena Schröter
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Pages 338
Release 2019-09-02
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 3110645351

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This book presents the first systematic quantitative study of null subjects not only in British English, but also in the contact varieties Indian, Hong Kong and Singapore English. Analysing informal spoken language, it addresses issues relevant for language contact and World Englishes, corpus linguistics and variationist sociolinguistics, linguistic typology and syntax.

Ten Lectures on Corpus Linguistics with R

Ten Lectures on Corpus Linguistics with R
Title Ten Lectures on Corpus Linguistics with R PDF eBook
Author Stefan Th. Gries
Publisher BRILL
Pages 310
Release 2019-11-26
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9004410341

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In this book, Stefan Th. Gries provides an overview on how quantitative corpus methods can provide insights to cognitive/usage-based linguistics and selected psycholinguistic questions. Topics include the corpus linguistics in general, its most important methodological tools, its statistical nature, and the relation of all these topics to past and current usage-based theorizing. Central notions discussed in detail include frequency, dispersion, context, and others in a variety of applications and case studies; four practice sessions offer short introductions of how to compute various corpus statistics with the open source programming language and environment R.