When does variation indicate linguistic change in progress?
When does variation indicate linguistic change in progress?
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什么时候变异表明语言正在发生变化？
DOI：
10.1017/s0959269500000776
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发表时间：
1991
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0.6
通讯作者：
W. Ashby
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作者：
W. Ashby
本文认为，现代法语的两个变量（否定助词ne和辅音l，如il）确实是正在进行的语言变化的指标，尽管这种变化似乎持续了很长时间。这一结论不仅基于自然法语话语语料库中变量的分布，而且还基于独立的语言学证据，以及现有的历史记录。在缺乏足够的“实时”数据的情况下，产生同步的“明显时间”数据的变分分析提供了一种绘制语言漂移的有用方法。
Abstract It is argued that two variables of Modern French (the negative particle ne and the consonant l of clitic pronouns such as il) are indeed indices of ongoing linguistic change, even though this change appears to be of long duration. This conclusion is based not only on the distribution of the variables in a corpus of natural French discourse, but also on independent linguistic evidence, together with the available historical record. In the absence of adequate ‘real-time’ data, variationist analysis yielding synchronic, “apparent-time” data provides a useful means of charting the drift of the language.