Idiosyncratic entrenchment: tracing change in constructional schematicity with nested random effects

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Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory Pub Date : 2024-08-22 DOI:10.1515/cllt-2023-0092

Svetlana Vetchinnikova

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Abstract

Usage-based constructionist approaches see language as an inventory of constructions at different levels of schematicity learned from the input. If so, personal constructicons should vary as a function of usage. Repeated use and chunking/entrenchment of concrete instances should lead to reanalysis of their internal structure and change in the level of schematicity. This paper exploits the reduction probability of is in it is as a diagnostic of reanalysis in a 1.75-million-word diachronic corpus of a single blogger over 8 years. All instances of it is/it’s (n = 10,929) were annotated at the constructional and lexical levels. A multilevel logistic regression model showed significant fixed effects of constructional entropy and construction-to-word association on reduction probability. Importantly, there remained substantial variation across lexical types of constructions in the extent to which they associated or became associated with reduction over time, suggesting idiosyncratic entrenchment and potential reanalysis as a function of usage.

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以使用为基础的建构主义方法认为，语言是从输入中学习到的不同层次结构的建构库。如果是这样的话，个人构词法应该随着使用而变化。具体实例的重复使用和分块/堑壕化应导致对其内部结构的重新分析和图式化水平的变化。本文利用 "is "在 "it is "中的还原概率，对一位博主 8 年来 175 万字的双时态语料库进行重新分析。所有 it is/it's 实例（n = 10,929）都在构词和词汇层面进行了注释。多层次逻辑回归模型显示，构词熵和构词与词关联对还原概率有显著的固定效应。重要的是，随着时间的推移，不同词性类型的构词与缩减的关联或关联程度仍存在很大差异，这表明随着使用情况的变化，构词的特异性固着和潜在的重新分析也会发生变化。

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期刊介绍： Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (CLLT) is a peer-reviewed journal publishing high-quality original corpus-based research focusing on theoretically relevant issues in all core areas of linguistic research, or other recognized topic areas. It provides a forum for researchers from different theoretical backgrounds and different areas of interest that share a commitment to the systematic and exhaustive analysis of naturally occurring language. Contributions from all theoretical frameworks are welcome but they should be addressed at a general audience and thus be explicit about their assumptions and discovery procedures and provide sufficient theoretical background to be accessible to researchers from different frameworks. Topics Corpus Linguistics Quantitative Linguistics Phonology Morphology Semantics Syntax Pragmatics.