A Computer-assisted Study of Participles in Early Modern English

本研究的目的是多方面的，首先，它旨在调查的分词在莎士比亚英语散文的使用。它涉及的分词类型称为“自由附加词”或“第三系”。调查的工程包括：托马斯德洛尼的《纽伯利的亚克》，托马斯纳什的《幸福的旅行者》，约翰·莱利的《尤弗斯》，《怀特的解剖》和菲利普·西德尼的《阿卡迪亚》。其次，目前的研究表明，语料库可以通过使用光学字符阅读器轻松和准确地产生，虽然越来越多的电子文本是今天访问，英语语言学家使用计算机数据库有时可能会觉得有必要创建自己的。这部分是因为现有的语料库可能不包括他们需要的特定版本的特定文本。第三，本研究试图建立一种方法，通过这种方法，一个新手与个人计算机可以很容易地处理语料库成一个数据库，他可以从中检索各种项目的巨大效用，为他的研究。为此目的，已经用Mifes的编程语言Mil编写了许多程序。（Megasoft，Osaka）。已经搜索了这样从四位作者的散文建立的数据库，以获得例如与句子长度和在语料库中用作自由分词的分词的出现有关的数据，本文还从语篇分析的角度探讨了“”和“”的逻辑主语之间的关系。在句子的前面位置使用的分词，其结果是逻辑主语最常出现在前一句中最后一个主句或从句的主语中。

The purpose of the present research is manifold ; firstly, it aims to investigate into the use of participles in Elizabethan English prose. It deals with the type of participles called "Free Adjuncts" or the ones in "Nexus Tertiary". The works investigated are : Thomas Deloney's Iacke of Newberie, Thomas Nash's the Vnfortvnate Traveler, John Lyly's Euphues, The Anatomy of Wyt, and Philip Sidney's Arcadia. Secondly, the present research shows that a corpus can be produced by using an Optical Character Reader with ease and accuracy, for though an increasing number of electronic texts are accessible today, English philologists using computerized databases may sometimes feel the necessity to create their own. This happens partly because existing corpora may not comprise particular texts of particular editions that they need. Thirdly, the present research attempts to establish a method by which a novice with a personal computer can easily process the corpus into a database from which he can retrieve a variety of items of great utility for his research. For this purpose a number of programs have been written in 'Mil', a programming language of 'Mifes' (Megasoft, Osaka).The database thus built from the prose by the four authors has been searched for data relating, for example, to sentence length and the occurrence of participles used as free adjuncts in the corpus, with the result that indicates a possible correlation between the two items under examination.An investigation from the point of view of discourse analysis has also been made as regards the logical subject of participles used in the front position of a sentence, with the result that the logical subject can most often be found in the subject of the last main or subordinate clause in the immediately preceding sentence.