English complex prepositions: theory and use: a corpus-based study
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Contents
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Figures
Tables
1 Introduction 1
I. I Aim and scope 1
1.2 Chapter overview 3
2 Data and Method 7
2.1 Introduction 7
2.2 Diachronic sources 8
2.2.1 The Gutenberg texts 9
2.2.2 The OED quotations database 10
2.2.2.1 Selection Criteria 12
2.2.2.2 Representativeness and balancedness of the quotations 13
2.2.2.3 Reliability of the data format 14
2.2.2.4 Quantification of results 16
2.2.3 A brief note on comparing data from the diachronic sources 18
2.3 Present day English: The British National Corpus 19
2.4 Searching the data 21
2.5 A frequency list of complex prepositions 24
2.6 Concluding remarks 25
3 Complex prepositions indivisible units or free constructions? 27
3.1 Introduction 27
3.2 An overview of grammars 28
3.3 Challenging mainstream grammars: Seppanen et al. (1994) 34
3.4 Seppanen et al. (1994): Some methodological considerations 37
3.5 Challenging the challengers: Evidence from corpora 39
3.5.1 The data 39
3.5.2 Coordination 39
3.5.3 Interpolation 44
3.5.3.1 Some comments on data retrieval and categorization 45
5.5.J.2 Interpolation: The corpus data 47
3.5.3.3 A related phenomenon: Hesitation 48
5.5.4 Fronting 52
5.5.5 £«ipj« 54
5.5.6 Summary of corpus data and evaluation 56
3.6 In favor of unity: Complex prepositions exist! 57
4 The grammatkalization of complex prepositions 59
4.1 Introduction: Language change 59
4.2 Grammaticalization theory a brief historical outline 61
4.3 A case study: The grammaticalization of in view of 68
4.4 Conclusion 74
5 Complex prepositions a diachronic overview 75
5.1 Introduction 75
5.2 Early complex prepositions 78
5.3 Complex prepositions established between 1500 and 1700 95
5.4 Complex prepositions established after 1700 107
5.5 Concluding remarks 115
6 Complex prepositions in Present day English 117
6.1 Introduction 117
6.2 A note on classification and terminology 120
6.3 General distribution 122
6.4 The distributional characteristics of some individual complex 129
prepositions
6.5 Interpreting distributional data: Conceptual frequency and style 134
6.6 The case of concession: In spite of and its variants 138
6.7 Conclusion 147
7 In terms of a new discourse marker 149
7.1 Introduction 149
7.2 Historical development 149
7.3 Present day use 153
7.3.1 General distribution 153
7.3.2 In terms of in spoken language 154
7.4 Summary and conclusion 169
8 Are low frequency complex prepositions grammaticalized? On the 171
limits of corpus data and the importance of intuition
8.1 Introduction 171
8.2 The Data 172
8.3 The importance of frequency in grammaticalization 175
8.4 Frequency and saliency 180
8.5 Grammaticalization by analogy? 186
8.6 Low frequency grammaticalization phenomena and corpus data: 188
some methodological considerations
8.6.1 Qualitative vs. quantitative analysis and the problem of
statistical significance 188
8.6.2 Corpus representativeness 190
8.6.3 Quantifying variation 191
8.6.4 The distribution of low frequency PNPconstructions 194
8.6.5 Intuition and corpus data 196
8.7 Summary and conclusion 200
9 Conclusion 203
9.1 The status of complex prepositions as syntactic units 203
9.2 Complex prepositions and grammaticalization Theory 207
9.3 The use of complex prepositions 210
9.4 Outlook: Suggestions for further research 211
10 Bibliography 213
Appendix I: The texts of the Gutenberg corpus 227
Appendix II: David Lee's genre categorization scheme 233 |
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