Variation in English genitives across modality and genres1
Variation in English genitives across modality and genres1
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英语所有格在情态和体裁上的变化1
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2014
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通讯作者：
Jason Grafmiller
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作者：
Jason Grafmiller
英语中属格结构的选择取决于许多语义、句法和语音因素。本研究探讨了这些因素对不同模式（言语与写作）和体裁（例如新闻、小说等）的影响，并在属格选择的概率语法的背景下模拟了语言外部变量对内部认知和语言因素的中介作用。讨论围绕着报纸所有格最近变化背后的驱动力展开辩论，得出的结论是，这一趋势反映了报告文学文本中向更经济的表达方式的推动。奇怪的是，分析发现与低水平处理相关因素之间几乎没有显着的相互作用，例如拥有者频率和词汇密度——根据最近的研究，这是一个令人惊讶的结果。然而，分析进一步揭示了其他几个关键因素之间存在显着的流派间差异，包括拥有者的活力和最终的嘶嘶声，这些因素在新闻散文中显着减少。后面的这些发现提供了有利于节约的间接证据，并提供了对外部文体关注点、特定语言实践和与特定语法结构相关的内部概率权重之间联系的洞察。
The choice of genitive construction in English is conditioned by numerous semantic, syntactic and phonological factors. The present study explores the influence of these factors across different modalities (speech vs writing) and genres (e.g. press, fiction, etc.), and models the mediating effect of language-external variables on internal cognitive and linguistic factors within the context of a probabilistic grammar of genitive choice. The discussion revolves around debates concerning the driving force(s) behind recent changes in newspaper genitives, concluding that the trend reflects a push toward more economical modes of expression in reportage texts. Curiously, analysis finds few significant interactions with low-level processing-related factors, e.g. possessor frequency and lexical density – a surprising result in light of recent research. However, analysis further reveals significant inter-genre variability among several other crucial factors including possessor animacy and final sibilancy, which are significantly reduced in journalistic prose. These latter findings offer indirect evidence in favor of economization, and offer insight into the connections between external stylistic concerns, specific linguistic practices and internal probabilistic weights associated with specific grammatical constructions.