句法变化中的个性:对17世纪动名词变化的调查

IF 1.8 1区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Lauren Fonteyn, A. Nini
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引用次数: 16

摘要

摘要:本研究探讨了结构变化随时间变化的个体性程度。早期的研究已经将历时不稳定动名词的变化归类为在整个变化过程中涉及大量混合用法的说话者,因此在个体语言使用者的语言输出中观察到的保守变体与渐进变体的比例表面上类似于在总体水平上观察到的平均比例。然而,这项研究表明,在这样一个集中的群体中,就每个个体如何调节观察到的变化而言,仍然存在异质性。通过对17世纪作者的14000多个动名词的随机森林和条件推理树分析,我们发现,虽然影响动名词变化的最重要的语言内部因素被所有作者所采用(并在所有作者之间共享),但我们仍然可以证明个体间的差异(i)在较低的变量重要性水平上,以及(ii)在个体作者用来影响被证明的变化的语境范围的广度上。
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Individuality in syntactic variation: An investigation of the seventeenth-century gerund alternation
Abstract This study investigates the extent to which there is individuality in how structural variation is conditioned over time. Earlier research already classified the diachronically unstable gerund variation as involving a high fraction of mixed-usage speakers throughout the change, whereby the proportion of the conservative variant versus the progressive variant as observable in the linguistic output of individual language users superficially resembles the mean proportion as observable at the population level. However, this study sets out to show that there can still be heterogeneity within such a centralized population in terms of how each individual conditions the observed variation. A random forest and conditional inference tree analysis of over 14,000 gerunds uttered by nineteen seventeenth-century authors is presented to show that, while the most important language-internal factors conditioning the gerund variation are adopted by (and shared between) all authors, we can still attest inter-individual variation (i) at lower levels of variable importance, and (ii) in the breadth of the range of contexts individual authors employ to condition the attested variation.
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CiteScore
3.30
自引率
17.60%
发文量
21
期刊介绍: Cognitive Linguistics presents a forum for linguistic research of all kinds on the interaction between language and cognition. The journal focuses on language as an instrument for organizing, processing and conveying information. Cognitive Linguistics is a peer-reviewed journal of international scope and seeks to publish only works that represent a significant advancement to the theory or methods of cognitive linguistics, or that present an unknown or understudied phenomenon. Topics the structural characteristics of natural language categorization (such as prototypicality, cognitive models, metaphor, and imagery); the functional principles of linguistic organization, as illustrated by iconicity; the conceptual interface between syntax and semantics; the experiential background of language-in-use, including the cultural background; the relationship between language and thought, including matters of universality and language specificity.
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