Cargando…

Morphosyntactic persistence in spoken English : a corpus study at the intersection of variationist sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and discourse analysis /

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...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt, 1976-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2006.
Colección:Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 177.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Previous research on persistence phenomena
  • 3. Method and data
  • 4. Persistence in comparison strategy choice
  • 5. Persistence in genitive choice
  • 6. Persistence in future marker choice
  • 7. Persistence in particle placement
  • 8. Persistence in complementation strategy choice
  • 9. Discussion of findings
  • 10. Conclusion.