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Morphosyntactic Persistence in Spoken English - A Corpus Study at the Intersection of Variationist Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, and Discourse Analysis (Hardcover)
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Morphosyntactic Persistence in Spoken English - A Corpus Study at the Intersection of Variationist Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, and Discourse Analysis (Hardcover)
Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
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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.
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