The progressive in 19th-century English : a process of integration

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The progressive in 19th-century English : a process of integration

Erik Smitterberg

(Language and computers : studies in practical linguistics, no. 54)

Rodopi, 2005

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The progressive in nineteenth-century English : a process of integration

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注記

Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Uppsala University, 2002

Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-269)

内容説明・目次

内容説明

The present volume is an empirical, corpus-based study of the progressive in 19th-century English. As the 1800s have been relatively neglected in previous research, and as the study is based on a new cross-genre corpus focusing on this period (CONCE = A Corpus of Nineteenth-Century English), the volume adds significantly to our knowledge of the historical development of the progressive. The use of two separate measures enables an accurate account of the frequency development of the progressive, which is also related to multi-feature/multi-dimensional analyses. Other topics covered include the complexity of progressive verb phrases and the distribution of the construction across linguistic parameters such as clause type. Special attention is paid to progressives that express something beyond purely aspectual meaning. The results show that the progressive became more fully integrated into English grammar over the 19th century, but also that linguistic and extralinguistic parameters affected this integration process; for instance, the construction was more common in women's than in men's private letters. Owing to the wide methodological scope of the study, it is of interest to linguists specializing in corpus linguistics, language variation and change, verbal syntax, the progressive, or the linguistic expression of aspect, either in synchrony or diachrony.

目次

List of tables and figures Preface Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Material and data Chapter 3. The frequency of the progressive in 19th-century English Chapter 4. M-coefficients and factor score analysis Chapter 5. Morphosyntactic variation in the verb phrase Chapter 6. Variation with linguistic parameters Chapter 7. The not-solely-aspectual progressive: An analytical approach Chapter 8. Concluding discussion References Appendix 1. Primary material: The CONCE corpus Appendix 2. Text-level codes used in CONCE Appendix 3. Tests for statistical significance

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA72565675
  • ISBN
    • 904201735X
  • 出版国コード
    ne
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Amsterdam
  • ページ数/冊数
    xvi, 284 p.
  • 大きさ
    24 cm
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