English Phraseological Research on Until By/ Before Working as Complex Prepositions
English Phraseological Research on Until By/ Before Working as Complex Prepositions
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10.5539/ijel.v9n1p1
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2019-01-01
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Inoue, Ai
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基于语料库的研究表明，until by和until before这两个新出现的短语单位在现代英语中起着复合介词的作用。现代英语中一个有趣的现象是，两个介词放在一起表示同一个意思。具体来说，介词in和on与其他介词共现，每一个介词短语都被确立为一个新的CP，具有单一意义，如in at或in on。until by和until before的组合在以往的研究中被认为是错误的，没有得到广泛的承认。本研究揭示了这两个短语的意义，它们作为新的合作伙伴的建立过程以及它们获得新意义的方式。为此，本研究采用了以下研究方法：（1）从共时和历时的角度分析until by和until before在语料库中的使用频率;（2）从语义和句法上明确until by和until before在语境中的用法;（3）分析与until连用的介词类型。
This corpora-based study shows that until by and until before, which are newly observed phraseological units (PUs) in contemporary English, function as complex prepositions (CPs). As an interesting phenomenon of present-day English, two prepositions are put together with a single meaning. Specifically, the prepositions in and on co-occur with various other prepositions, and each resulting prepositional phrase becomes established as a new CP with a single meaning like in at or in on. The combinations until by and until before have not been widely acknowledged and have been regarded as mistakes in previous studies. This study shows the meanings of the two phrases, the process of their establishment as new CPs and the way they gained their new meanings. To this end, the study carries out the following research procedures: (i) showing the frequencies of until by and until before in corpora from the synchronic and diachronic perspectives; (ii) differentiating until by and until before by semantically and syntactically clear regarding how until by and until before are used in context; and (iii) showing the kinds of prepositions that are used with until to form PUs as well as CPs.