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Diachronic Distribution of Elemental Ordering in English
Ist Teil von
Journal of quantitative linguistics, 2022-07, Vol.29 (3), p.350-373
Ort / Verlag
Lisse: Routledge
Erscheinungsjahr
2022
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Taylor & Francis Journals Auto-Holdings Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
English elemental ordering in a non-canonical word order incorporates preposing, postposing and elemental reversal. This paper intends to explore how these types of elemental ordering are distributed during the last two centuries by employing the Corpus of Historical American English or COHA. The findings demonstrate that preposing has been increasing apparently but still in its inceptive phase; postposing, subsuming existential there and presentational there, generally keeps plateauing with existential there dominating presentational there; and elemental reversal experiences a trend of gradual decreasing, which is attributed to the dominance in occurrences of passive with a by phrase construction over those of inversion. This research provides us with a corpus linguistic insight of exploring elemental ordering, which distinguishes itself from other researches focusing on information status.