TY - BOOK ID - 1631990 TI - Morphosyntactic persistence in spoken English PY - 2006 VL - 177 SN - 128219416X 9786612194160 3110197804 3110190125 9783110190120 9783110197808 PB - Berlin New York Mouton de Gruyter DB - UniCat KW - English language KW - Morphology. KW - Syntax. KW - Discourse analysis. KW - Grammar. KW - Variation. KW - Pragmatics KW - Grammar KW - Dialectology KW - 802.0-55 KW - 802.0-56 KW - 802.0-56 Engels: syntaxis; semantiek KW - Engels: syntaxis; semantiek KW - 802.0-55 Engels: morfologie KW - Engels: morfologie KW - Anglais (Langue) KW - Morphologie KW - Syntaxe KW - Analyse du discours KW - Grammaire KW - Variation KW - Analysis and parsing KW - Diagraming KW - Discourse analysis KW - Morphology KW - Syntax KW - Dialects KW - Composition and exercises KW - Germanic languages KW - Corpora. KW - English/language. KW - sociolinguistics. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1631990 AB - Language users are creatures of habit with a tendency to re-use morphosyntactic material that they have produced or heard before. In other words, linguistic patterns and tokens, once used, persist in discourse. The present book is the first large-scale corpus analysis to explore the determinants of this persistence, drawing on regression analyses of a variety of functional, discourse-functional, cognitive, psycholinguistic, and external factors. The case studies investigated include the alternation between synthetic and analytic comparatives, between the s-genitive and the of-genitive, between gerundial and infinitival complementation, particle placement, and future marker choice in a number of corpora sampling different spoken registers and geographical varieties of English. Providing a probabilistic framework for examining the ways in which persistence - among several other internal and external factors - influences speakers' linguistic choices, the book departs from most writings in the field in that it seeks to bridge several research traditions. While it is concerned, in a classically variationist spirit, with internal and external determinants of grammatical variation in English, it also draws heavily on ideas and evidence developed by psycholinguists and discourse analysts. In seeking to construct a comprehensive model of how speakers make linguistic choices, the study ultimately contributes to a theory of how spoken language works. The book is of interest to graduate students and researchers in variationist sociolinguistics, probabilistic linguistics, psycholinguistics, and computational linguistics. ER -