Description: Morphosyntactic Persistence in Spoken English by Benedikt Szmrecsanyi Language users are creatures of habit with a tendency to re-use morphosyntactic material that they have produced or heard before. This book explores the determinants of this persistence, drawing on regression analyses of a variety of functional, discourse-functional, cognitive, psycholinguistic, and external factors. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Language 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. Notes Exklusives Verkaufsrecht fÜr: Gesamte Welt. Flap Language users are creatures of habit with a tendency to re-use linguistic material that they have produced or heard before. In other words, linguistic patterns and tokens, once used, persist in spoken discourse. The book explores the determinants of this persistence in corpus data of spoken English, drawing on regression analyses of a variety of functional, discourse-functional, cognitive, psycholinguistic, and external factors. In providing a variationist-probabilistic framework for examining the ways in which different internal and external factors influence speakers linguistic choices, the study ultimately contributes to a theory of how spoken language works. Author Biography Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat, Freiburg, Germany. Long Description Language 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. Details ISBN3110190125 Author Benedikt Szmrecsanyi Short Title MORPHOSYNTACTIC PERSISTENCE IN Language English ISBN-10 3110190125 ISBN-13 9783110190120 Media Book Format Hardcover DEWEY 425.9 Series Number 177 Year 2006 Subtitle A Corpus Study at the Intersection of Variationist Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, and Discourse Analysis Place of Publication Berlin Country of Publication Germany Audience Age 22-22 Birth 1976 Pages 261 Imprint De Gruyter Mouton Illustrations 32 Tables, black and white; 25 Illustrations, black and white DOI 10.1604/9783110190120 UK Release Date 2006-05-19 Publisher De Gruyter Series Trends in Linguistics. 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Book Title: Morphosyntactic Persistence in Spoken English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Subject: Sociology
Publication Year: 2006
Number of Pages: 261 Pages
Publication Name: Morphosyntactic Persistence in Spoken English: A Corpus Study at the Intersection of Variationist Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, and Discourse Analysis
Language: English
Type: Study Guide
Item Weight: 505 g
Subject Area: Data Analysis, Religious Sociology
Author: Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
Format: Hardcover
