04690nam 2200781 a 450 991078190800332120230828222042.01-282-19416-X97866121941603-11-019780-410.1515/9783110197808(CKB)1000000000520858(EBL)325634(OCoLC)437195745(SSID)ssj0000205721(PQKBManifestationID)11184800(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000205721(PQKBWorkID)10212565(PQKB)11458095(MiAaPQ)EBC325634(DE-B1597)32252(OCoLC)853244101(OCoLC)948655931(DE-B1597)9783110197808(Au-PeEL)EBL325634(CaPaEBR)ebr10197185(CaONFJC)MIL219416(OCoLC)191818364(EXLCZ)99100000000052085820060301d2006 uy 0engur||#||||||||txtccrMorphosyntactic persistence in spoken English[electronic resource] a corpus study at the intersection of variationist sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and discourse analysis /by Benedikt SzmrecsanyiBerlin ;New York Mouton de Gruyterc20061 online resource (264 p.)Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs, x 1861-4302 ;177Description based upon print version of record.3-11-019012-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-242) and index.Front matter --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 --Back matterLanguage 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.Trends in linguistics.Studies and monographs ;177.English languageMorphologyEnglish languageSyntaxEnglish languageDiscourse analysisEnglish languageGrammarEnglish languageVariationCorpora.English/language.sociolinguistics.English languageMorphology.English languageSyntax.English languageDiscourse analysis.English languageGrammar.English languageVariation.425/.918.04bclSzmrecsanyi Benedikt1976-1496143MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781908003321Morphosyntactic persistence in spoken English3820333UNINA