Chapter 4: Composite Predicates and Phrasal Verbs in<i>The Paston Letters</i>

Tanabe, Harumi

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“…language of the Paston Letters in 1882, the corpus has been subject to a number of studies from different linguistic perspectives -see, among others, Davis (1989Davis ( [1954), González Escribano (1982Escribano ( , 1985, Schäfer (1996), Gómez-Soliño (1997), Tanabe (1999), and Wood (2007). Some authors have adopted a historical sociolinguistic approach.…”

Section: Tracing Patterns Of Intra-speaker Variationmentioning

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Tracing Patterns of Intra-Speaker Variation in Early English Correspondence: A Change from Above in thePaston Letters

Campoy

Conde-Silvestre

García-Vidal

2019

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia

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The aim of this paper is to explore the impact of social and context factors on the diffusion of a linguistic change from above, namely the deployment of the spelling innovation <th> in fifteenth-century English, and especially in some letters from the well-known Paston collection of correspondence. We particularly focus on the socio-stylistic route of this change from above, observing the sociolinguistic behaviour of some letter writers (members of the Paston family) in connection with the social-professional status of their recipients, the interpersonal relationship with them, as well as the contexts and styles of the letters. In this way, different dimensions of this change from above in progress in fifteenth-century English can be reconstructed.

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Tracing Patterns of Intra-Speaker Variation in Early English Correspondence: A Change from Above in thePaston Letters

Campoy

Conde-Silvestre

García-Vidal

2019

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia

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“…Example (6) is a case in point. Keeping such difficulties with the interpretation of PVs in mind, Hiltunen (1983) and Tanabe (1999) assert that most verb–adverb combinations in OE and ME primarily had physical or concrete (i.e. less idiomatic) meanings, and that PVs with aspectual or idiomatic meanings were not so frequently used, at least by late ME 7 .…”

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“…According to Tanabe, who examines composite predicates (e.g. take a walk ) and PVs based on data from the Paston Letters written in the Early Modern English (EModE) period, there are few combinations with a particle whose meaning is not locative in EModE (Tanabe 1999: 127–8). Hence, to better understand the development of partially idiomatic PVs, the usage of PVs in EModE and in the Late Modern English (LModE) period needs to be investigated 5…”

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A usage-based analysis of phrasal verbs in Early and Late Modern English

Ishizaki¹

2012

English Language and Linguistics

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This article presents a historical cognitive analysis of the development of phrasal verbs (PVs) with out and away in Early and Late Modern English. Semantically, PVs in Present-Day English can be classified as being (a) fully compositional (e.g. go out), (b) partially idiomatic, with the particle having an aspectual (i.e. grammatical) function (e.g. work away) and (c) (fully or highly) idiomatic (e.g. make out ‘understand’; see Quirk et al. 1985, Jackendoff 2010). As is clear from this classification, the development of PVs has, at least, involved grammaticalization and idiomatization. However, there is no consensus in recent grammaticalization research on how these two kinds of changes are related.The literature suggests that the particles used in the partially idiomatic PVs were undergoing grammaticalization in the Old and Middle English periods. Therefore, to understand the semantic and conceptual relationships between partially idiomatic and idiomatic PVs, a closer investigation of the uses of PVs after Early Modern English is in order. In this article, focusing on the distributions of away and out taken from colloquial corpora of Early and Late Modern English, namely, the Corpus of Early English Correspondence Sampler (CEECS) and the Penn Parsed Corpus of Modern British English (PPCMBE), it is shown through descriptive characterizations that the partially idiomatic and idiomatic PVs are instances of idiomatization caused by grammaticalization and by lexicalization, respectively. Based on these observations, the developments of these two types of PVs can be explained by a Usage-Based Model put forth mainly by Langacker (2000) and Bybee (2006, 2010). Specifically, the idiomatization of partially idiomatic PVs involves repeated schema extractions leading to productivity, whereas the idiomatization of fully or highly idiomatic PVs involves the ‘conserving effect’, whereby a highly entrenched linguistic expression with high frequency resists further language change.

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“…Why do English LVCs exist alongside counterpart synthetic verbs, especially given that synthetic verbs are arguably the more efficient form (Zipf 1949)? It has been proposed that LVCs serve an aspectual function (Prince 1972, Live 1973, Wierzbicka 1982, Tanabe 1999, Butt & Geuder 2001), as there are telic LVC counterparts (e.g. have a thought ) of atelic verbs (e.g.…”

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Choosing an event description: What a PropBank study reveals about the contrast between light verb constructions and counterpart synthetic verbs

Bonial

Pollard

2020

J. Ling.

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Light verb constructions (LVCs) in English and Romance languages are somewhat unique crosslinguistically because LVCs in these languages tend to have semantically similar synthetic verb counterparts (Zarco 1999): e.g. make an appearance and appear. This runs contrary to assumptions in linguistic theories that two competing forms are rarely maintained in a language unless they serve distinct purposes (e.g. Grice 1975). Why do English LVCs exist alongside counterpart synthetic verbs, especially given that synthetic verbs are arguably the more efficient form (Zipf 1949)? It has been proposed that LVCs serve an aspectual function (Prince 1972, Live 1973, Wierzbicka 1982, Tanabe 1999, Butt & Geuder 2001), as there are telic LVC counterparts (e.g. have a thought) of atelic verbs (e.g. think). This proposal has been difficult to evaluate without a large-scale resource providing a markup of both LVCs and counterpart verbs. Addressing this gap in resources, the present research describes the development of guidelines for LVC annotation in the English PropBank (Bonial & Palmer 2015). The focus of this article is the subsequent analysis of these annotations, aimed at uncovering corpus evidence of what contexts call for the use of an LVC over a synthetic verb. The corpus study shows that the general function of LVCs is not an aspectual one and provides distributional evidence that the ease and variety with which LVCs can be modified is the general motivating factor for the use of an LVC.

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Chapter 4: Composite Predicates and Phrasal Verbs inThe Paston Letters

Cited by 27 publications

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Tracing Patterns of Intra-Speaker Variation in Early English Correspondence: A Change from Above in thePaston Letters

Tracing Patterns of Intra-Speaker Variation in Early English Correspondence: A Change from Above in thePaston Letters

A usage-based analysis of phrasal verbs in Early and Late Modern English

Choosing an event description: What a PropBank study reveals about the contrast between light verb constructions and counterpart synthetic verbs

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