1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455981403321

Autore

Lindsey James K.

Titolo

Modelling frequency and count data / / J.K. Lindsey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Clarendon Press

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [1995]

©1995

ISBN

0-19-166070-1

1-280-86985-2

9786610869855

0-585-18032-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (302 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Oxford statistical science series ; ; 15

Disciplina

519.5/36

Soggetti

Multivariate analysis

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-282) and index.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910968950503321

Autore

Mondorf Britta <1963->

Titolo

More support for more-support : the role of processing constraints on the choice between synthetic and analytic comparative forms / / Britta Mondorf

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, PA ; ; Amsterdam, : John Benjamins Pub. Company, c2009

ISBN

1-282-39550-5

9786612395505

90-272-8927-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (235 p.)

Collana

Studies in language variation, , 1872-9592 ; ; v. 4

Disciplina

425/.5

Soggetti

English language - Comparison

English language - Adjective

Comparison (Grammar)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Theoretical preliminaries -- Methodological preliminaries -- More-support in phonology -- More-support in morphology -- More-support in the lexicon -- More-support in syntax -- More-support in semantics -- More-support in pragmatics/iconicity -- The emergence of more-support in diachrony -- More-support in British and American English -- Conclusion -- Theoretical implications and outlook -- References.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides the most comprehensive account so far of novel and hitherto unexplained factors operative in the choice between synthetic (prouder) and analytic (more proud ) comparatives. It argues that the underlying motivation in using the analytic variant is to mitigate processing demands - a compensatory strategy referred to as more -support. The analytic variant is claimed to be better suited to environments of increased processing complexity - presumably owing to its ability to facilitate early phrase structure recognition, the more transparent one-to-one relation between form and function and possibly because the degree marker more can serve as a structural signal foreshadowing cognitive complexity. A bird's eye view of 24



determinants reveals that the processing effort which triggers the analytic comparative emanates from structures that are phonologically, morphologically, syntactically, lexically, semantically or pragmatically complex. By bridging the gap between corpus-based variation research and psycholinguistic and typological approaches, the book breaks new ground in uncovering the functional motivation behind the continued variability of synthetic-analytic contrasts.