A historical and sociolinguistic Study of 18th-century English

这个为期三年的研究项目的目的是（2003-2005年）是为了分析和澄清各种特征，本文以大量的小说、戏剧、传记、日记、期刊等资料为基础，从历史语言学和社会语言学的角度，对18世纪英语的句法、词法、词汇、文体等方面进行了研究，主要成果如下：1.收集了500多本关于18世纪英语的相关书籍和文章，并对这些书籍和文章进行了评论。2.在上述材料的基础上，对18世纪英语的历史研究和社会语言学研究进行了综述，强调了研究18世纪英语的重要性，3.表明不带do的否定结构在十八世纪仍然存在。特别是，像知道，怀疑和有动词是在不做结构的青睐。Do-less结构在疑问句和if引导的条件从句中也很常见。4.证明了18世纪英语中形容词比较的总体趋势与现代英语没有显著差异。5.对现代英语中的完成体进行了详细的描述性研究，并指出了18世纪英语中的屈折形式和迂回形式的频率分布与现代英语的不同之处不及物运动动词，加强副词，这两个都已出版）6.关于复合动名词，动名词的主语，双宾语结构，称呼语，发誓语等的文章已接近完成。

The purpose of this three-year research project (2003-2005) was to analyze and clarify various features (syntax, morphology, lexicology, stylistics and others) of Eighteenth-Century English from a historical and sociolinguistic point of view, on the basis of abundant data collected from novels, plays, biographies, diaries, periodicals, and so on. The chief results of the study so far done are as follows :1.Collected some 500 relevant books and articles on Eighteenth-Centtury English, which were compiled with some critical comments.2.Made a survey of historical and sociolinguistic studies on Eighteenth-Century English, based upon the above materials, and emaphasized the importance of the study of Eighteenth-Century English in reference to Present-day English.3.Showed that negative constructions without do are still existent in the eighteenth century. Especially, verbs like know, doubt, and have are in favour of do-less constructions. Do-less constructions are also favoured in interrogative sentences and conditional clauses introduced by if.4.Demonstrated that the overall tendency of adjective comparison in 18th-century English did not significantly differ from that of Present-day English and that the frequency distribution of the inflectional and periphrastic forms differentiated the 18th century usage from that of today.5.Also made a detailed descriptive study of perfect forms of intransitive verbs of motion, intensive adverbs, both of which were published)6.Articles on the compound gerund, the subject of the gerund, the double-object construction, terms of address, swearing, and others are nearly completed.