More support for more-support: the role of processing constraints on the choice between synthetic and analytic comparative forms
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| adam_text | This book provides the most comprehensive account so far of novel
and hitherto unexplained factors operative in the choice between
synthetic {prouder) and analytic (more proud) comparatives. It argues
that the underlying motivation in using the analytic variant is to
mitigate processing demands
—
a compensatory strategy referred to
as more-support. The analytic variant is claimed to be better suited
to environments of increased processing complexity
-
presumably
owing to its ability to facilitate early phrase structure recognition, the
more transparent one-to-one relation between form and function and
possibly because the degree marker more can serve as a structural signal
foreshadowing cognitive complexity. A bird s eye view of
24
determinants
reveals that the processing effort which triggers the analytic comparative
emanates from structures that are phonologicaJly, morphologically,
syntactically, lexically, semantically or pragmatically complex. By bridging
the gap between corpus-based variation research and psychoiinguistic
and typological approaches, the book breaks new ground in uncovering
the functional motivation behind the continued variability of synthetic-
analytic contrasts.
Titel: More support for more-support
Autor: Mondorf, Britta
Jahr: 2009
Table of contents
CHAPTER 1
Introduction !
1.1 The state of the art 2
1.2 Structure of the book 2
CHAPTER 2
Theoretical preliminaries 5
2.1 More-support 6
2.2 The problem of defining complexity 8
chapter 3
Methodological preliminaries 11
CHAPTER 4
More-support in phonology 17
4.1 Avoidance of identity effects I: Stress clash avoidance 17
4.1.1 The Principle of Rhythmic Alternation 17
4.1.2 Deriving the hypothesis 18
4.1.3 Monosyllabic adjectives 18
4.1.4 Disyllabic adjectives 19
4.2 Avoidance of identity effects II: Identical
morpho-phonological segments 24
4.3 Avoidance of identity effects III: Consonant clusters 30
4-4 Final segments 33
chapter 5
More-support in morphology 35
CHAPTER 6
More-support in the lexicon 37
6.1 Length 37
6.2 Frequency 40
6.3 Compounds 42
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6.3.1 The cognitive complexity of compounds 44
6.3.2 Do compound adjectives take synthetic comparison? 45
6.3.3 Degree of lexicalisation 49
6.3.4 Theoretical implications 51
6.3.5 Summary and discussion 54
6.4 Parallel structures 56
chapter 7
More-support in syntax 57
7.1 Argument complexity 57
7.1.1 Methodology 60
7.1.2 Distinguishing between obligatory complements,
optional complements and adjuncts 60
7.1.3 Eliminating attributive uses 63
7.1.4 Infinitival complements 63
7.1.4.1 Eliminating prepositional complement
effects and the end-weight factor 64
7.1.4.2 The effect of infinitival complements 64
7.1.4.3 Psycholinguistic evidence for more-support
with infinitival complements 68
7.1.4.4 Tough movement 70
7.1.5 Prepositional complements 72
7.1.6 Quantifying each determinants contribution 75
7.1.7 77ia«-phrases: A telling counterexample 78
7.2 Position 80
7.2.1 Positional distribution of different formal
types of adjectives 80
7.2.2 Positional distribution of the individual adjectives investigated 84
7.2.3 Contrasting different formal types of adjectives
according to position 87
7.2.4 Towards an explanation of the positional preferences 88
chapter 8
More-support in semantics 91
8.1 Concrete vs. abstract 91
8.1.1 Psycholinguistic evidence on concreteness effects
in language processing 91
8.1.2 Corpus study on more-support with abstract meanings 93
8.2 Literal vs. figurative meanings 96
8.3 Weak gradability 97
Table of contents ix
CHAPTER 9
More-support in pragmatics/iconicity 99
9.1 End-weight 99
9.1.1 Methodology 100
9.1.2 The end-weight effect in comparative alternation 102
9.1.3 The end-weight effect for the individual
adjectives investigated 103
9.1.4 Discussion 106
9.2 Proximity 107
9.3 Cumulative comparatives 109
9.4 Gradual increase 110
9.5 Emphasis or Is more proud prouder than prouder ? 112
9.6 Establishment in discourse 114
9.7 Syntactic persistence 115
chapter 10
The emergence of more-support in diachrony 117
10.1 Previous research 117
10.2 The debated origin of analytic forms of comparison 120
10.3 Methodology 122
10.4 Reversal of the typological shift from synthetic to analytic? 126
10.5 Positional distribution from Early Modern English
to Present-Day English 131
10.5.1 Positional distribution from Early Modern
to Present-Day British English 132
10.5.2 Positional distribution in British and American English
in the Late Modern period 133
10.5.3 Summary 135
10.6 The emergent division of labour I: Aiore-support with
Complex adjectives 135
10.6.1 Introduction 135
10.6.2 Complexity parameters 136
10.6.3 Adjectives in -ful 137
10.6.4 Adjectives in -ing 138
10.6.5 Adjectives in -y 140
10.6.6 Adjectives in -ure 142
10.6.7 Adjectives in -ere 144
10.6.8 Adjectives in -some 145
10.6.9 Adjectives in -al 146
10.6.10 Monosyllabic adjectives 148
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10.6.11 Adjectives in -less 149
10.6.12 Adjectives in -ous 150
10.6.13 Adjectives in -ed 151
10.6.14 Adjectives in -ant 152
10.6.15 Adjectives in -ish 153
10.6.16 Adjectives in -ent 154
10.6.17 Adjectives in -ward 155
10.6.18 Adjectives in -il 156
10.6.19 Adjectives in -able 157
10.7 The emergent division of labour II: JWore-support in cases
of argument complexity 159
10.7.1 A qualitative change in the English system of comparison 159
10.7.2 Emergence of more-support in cases of argument
complexity for individual adjectives 161
10.8 The trajectories of change for selected groups of adjectives
in British vs. American English 164
10.9 The impact of origin/provenance 166
10.10 Discussion 166
chapter 11
Aiore-support in British and American English 171
11.1 American English uses more analytic comparatives
than British English 172
11.1.1 Eliminating positional effects 173
11.1.2 Formal type 174
11.1.3 Frequency of the positive form 178
11.1.4 Attested gradability 179
11.2 American English uses fewer comparative forms
than British English 180
11.3 Towards an explanation of the British and American differences
in terms of complexity and style 183
11.3.1 Comparative alternation according to style 186
11.3.2 The relation between style and complexity 188
11.4 Discussion of British and American differences
in comparative alternation 190
11.5. The special status of disyllabic adjectives in (-y) 192
chapter 12
Conclusion 195
Table of contents xi
CHAPTER 13
Theoretical implications and outlook 201
References 205
Author index 217
Subject index 221
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