Stability and Fluidity in Syntactic Variation World-Wide
Stability and Fluidity in Syntactic Variation World-Wide
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全球句法变化的稳定性和流动性
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2017
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Jason Grafmiller
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B. Heller;Benedikt Szmrecsanyi;Jason Grafmiller
英语变体内部和之间句法变化的范围和限制是什么？为了解决这个问题，我们研究了九种英语变体中 s-属格（巴恩斯利先生的管理）和 of-属格（巴恩斯利先生的管理）之间众所周知的句法变异。我们通过分析包含来自国际英语语料库九个组成部分的 10,558 个可互换属格的丰富注释数据集，专门衡量了这种变化的约束稳定性。回归模型表明，诸如拥有者活力、成分长度、拥有者的最终齿音以及媒介（口语与书面）作为语言外部因素的影响等约束在不同品种的强度上有所不同。然而，语言内部的限制永远不会改变影响方向。我们得出的结论是，促进属格变化的概率语法总体上令人惊讶地稳定，但确实在英语作为母语（ENL）和英语作为第二语言（ESL）变体之间的区别上表现出一定的流动性：那些倾向于支持s属格使用的限制在ESL变体中往往被削弱。
What are the scope and limits of syntactic variation within and across varieties of English? To address this question, we investigate well-known syntactic variation between the s-genitive (Mr Barnsley’s management) and the of-genitive (the management of Mr Barnsley) in nine varieties of English. We specifically gauge the stability of constraints on this variation by analyzing a richly annotated dataset spanning 10,558 interchangeable genitives from nine components of the International Corpus of English. Regression modeling indicates that constraints such as possessor animacy, constituent length, final sibilancy of the possessor, as well as the effect of medium (spoken vs. written) as a language-external factor differ in strength across varieties. The language-internal constraints, however, never change effect direction. We conclude that the probabilistic grammar fueling genitive variation is surprisingly stable overall, but does exhibit some fluidity along the lines of a distinction between English as a native language (ENL) and English as a second language (ESL) varieties: those constraints that tend to favor s-genitive usage tend to be weakened in ESL varieties.