Query Details
| Query Subject: |
online qiestionnaire on future time reference in English
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| Author: | Benedikt Szmrecsanyi |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email |
| Query: |
Dear colleagues, I am currently working on a project that deals with the expression of future time reference in Present Day English. More specifically, I am looking into a number of syntactic factors (for instance, contexts of negation) that may make speakers more likely to employ a specific future marker form. Also, I am analyzing patterns of regional as well as stylistic variation. Although my approach is primarily corpus-based, I would also like to base my interpretations on data that have been obtained through elicitation tests. To that end, I have designed a questionnaire that is available online and that can be submitted online. It should take no more than 4-5 minutes to fill it out (although all you have to do is basically click). The questionnaire is available a http://www.banquo.de/questionnaire.phtml Everyone is welcome to participate; comments, questions, or remarks, are of course greatly appreciated. At the same time, however, I would like to poin out (preventively, so to say) that almost none of the data that is submitted to respondents' judgement is made up by me; all data - except some stuff in section I - have been actually produced by native speakers, and the option that these speakers chose to employ is always included among the alternatives from which you can choose. I do promise to post a summary of the findings of this questionnaire in a few weeks or so! thanks for your participation, Benedik |
