LINGUIST List 17.298

Sat Jan 28 2006

Books: Historical Ling/Syntax, English: Perez Guerra

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Directory         1.    Ulrich Lueders, Historical English Syntax: Perez Guerra
Message 1: Historical English Syntax: Perez Guerra
Date: 26-Jan-2006
From: Ulrich Lueders <lincom.europat-online.de>
Subject: Historical English Syntax: Perez Guerra


Title: Historical English Syntax Subtitle: A statistical corpus-based study on the organisation of Early Modern English sentences Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Germanic Linguistics 11 Published: 2006 Publisher: Lincom GmbH
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Author: Javier Perez Guerra, University of Vigo Paperback: ISBN: 3895866512 Pages: 300 Price: Europe EURO 77.00
Paperback: ISBN: 3895866512 Pages: 300 Price: U.K. £ 53.11
Paperback: ISBN: 3895866512 Pages: 300 Price: U.S. $ 101.64
Abstract:

In this monograph the author explores the syntactic organisation ofdeclarative clauses from late Middle English to present-day English andpays special attention to the consequences which the location of thesubject has for the determination of the unmarked word order in EarlyModern English. The data have been taken from two electronic corpora,namely, The Helsinki Corpus of English Texts and the Lancaster/Oslo-BergenCorpus of British English.

The author outlines his own concept of 'theme,' which will be useful forthe (explanatory and descriptive) purposes of describing syntactic(un)markedness. Such a concept leads to the existence of, on the one hand,an unmarked SV organisation and, on the other, of several marked patterns,viz sentences introduced by existential there, instances of subjectextraposition and insertion of it, clefts, topicalisations,left-dislocations and subject inversions. The subsystems just mentioned arelocated on a scale of markedness, according to two variables: first,frequency, which is investigated by way of the statistical analysis of thedata, and, second, 'linguistic functionality.' This second variable hasbeen examined in the light of variables such as gender, textual category,discourse taxonomy, orality and informative principles such as 'givenbefore new' or end-weight.

JAVIER PÉREZ-GUERRA lectures on English linguistics and corpus linguisticsat the Department of English, University of Vigo. His research is focusedon syntactic change from Early Modern English onwards.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics                             Syntax                             Text/Corpus Linguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
Written In: English (eng )

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