The Emergence of Modern English Syntax

现代英语语法的出现

• 批准号: 9905488
• 负责人: Anthony Kroch
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Pennsylvania
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-09-01 至 2004-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9905488&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Emergence; Modern; English; Syntax

Kroch99-05488ABSTRACTThe Emergence of Modern English SyntaxThe aims of this project are (1) to create an electronic corpus of 1.5 millionwords of early Modern English text and (2) to use this corpus to improve ourunderstanding of the syntactic changes that characterize the transition fromMiddle to Modern English. The proposed corpus will contain, in addition to thetexts themselves, the grammatical information necessary for extensivesyntactic analysis. The corpus will be compatible in format with the existing1.25 million word Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English (PPCME2) andwith the York Parsed Corpus of Old English currently under construction. Atthe end of the project scholars will have available in annotated electronicform a continuous sample of historical English from the earliest written textsto 1700. Among the linguistic changes that the early Modern English corpuswill allow us and other scholars to address are: the loss of verb-second wordorder, which goes to completion in the early Modern period; the loss ofso-called ``verb-to-INFL raising'', including the rise of periphrastic 'do';and the rise of the modern English passive. In addition to its role infacilitating grammatical analysis, one major effect of the English corpus onfuture linguistic investigations will be to permit scholars to use statisticalmethods to study empirically the temporal dynamics of syntactic change.

Kroch99-05488摘要现代英语句法的出现该项目的目的是（1）创建一个包含 150 万单词的早期现代英语文本的电子语料库，以及（2）使用该语料库来提高我们对中古英语到现代英语过渡过程中句法变化的理解。除了文本本身之外，拟议的语料库还将包含广泛句法分析所需的语法信息。该语料库将在格式上与现有的 125 万单词的宾夕法尼亚-赫尔辛基中古英语解析语料库 (PPCME2) 以及目前正在建设中的约克古英语解析语料库兼容。在项目结束时，学者们将以带注释的电子形式获得从最早的书面文本到 1700 年的历史英语的连续样本。早期现代英语语料库将使我们和其他学者能够解决的语言变化包括：动词第二词序的丧失，这种情况在现代早期完成；所谓“动词到 INFL 提升”的消失，包括迂回说法“do”的兴起；以及现代英语被动语态的兴起。除了促进语法分析的作用之外，英语语料库对未来语言学研究的一个主要影响将是允许学者使用统计方法来实证研究句法变化的时间动态。