Recent change in non-present perfect constructions in British and American English
Recent change in non-present perfect constructions in British and American English
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英式和美式英语中非现在完成时结构的最新变化
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2013
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P. Collins
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Xinyue Yao;P. Collins
最近对英语语法范畴的一些研究发现，现在完成时的使用存在地域性和历时性的差异，这表明从18世纪开始，现在完成时的使用就逐渐被一般过去时所取代(Elsness，1997,2009；Hundt和Smith，2009；姚和Collins，2012)。只有有限数量的研究对非现在完善进行了研究。最近，Bowie和Aart(2012)利用现代英语口语历时语料库进行的一项研究发现，在二十世纪下半叶，某些非现在完成时在英国英语口语中经历了相当大的下降。然而，与美国英语(AME)和各种体裁的对比还没有出现。本研究主要考察了从20世纪60年代初到90年代初的三十年间，四种非现在完成体(过去式、情态、不定式和ING-分词)在标准书面语BRE和AME中分布的变化。使用标记的和..。
A number of recent studies of grammatical categories in English have identified regional and diachronic variation in the use of the present perfect, suggesting that it has been losing ground to the simple past tense from the eighteenth century onwards (Elsness, 1997, 2009; Hundt and Smith, 2009; and Yao and Collins, 2012). Only a limited amount of research has been conducted on non-present perfects. More recently, Bowie and Aarts’ (2012) study using the Diachronic Corpus of Present-Day Spoken English has found that certain non-present perfects underwent a considerable decline in spoken British English (BrE) during the second half of the twentieth century. However, comparison with American English (AmE) and across various genres has not been made. This study focusses on the changes in the distribution of four types of non-present perfects (past, modal, to-infinitival and ing-participial) in standard written BrE and AmE during the thirty-year period from the early 1960s to the early 1990s. Using a tagged an...