Essentials of Mastering English

Bache, Carl

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“…Studies dedicated to the NP include Adamson (2000); Breban (2010); Davidse et al (2008a); Ghesquière (2009);Paradis (2000); Vandewinkel & Davidse (2008) on the processes of change affecting individual items, and Brems (2011); Davidse et al (2008b); Denison (2002); Keizer (2007); Margerie (2010); Traugott (2008) on the reanalysis of determiner + noun + of constructions, such as a lot of, as modifiers in the noun phrase. The changes were typically described with reference to a functional model of the English noun phrase, in line with among others Bache (2000); Halliday (1994Halliday ( [1985); Quirk et al (1985), which lends itself well to discussion of grammaticalization and subjectification. The point of departure for the model is that elements in the English NP can fulfill a range of functions, i.e.…”

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Breban

Gentens

2016

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In this paper we report on a historical corpus study of English multiple, an adjective which underwent a process of grammaticalization starting from lexical uses with the meaning 'composite', e.g. HR 3617 is a multiple star, to grammaticalized uses as individualizer, paraphrasable as 'different', e.g. She has to perform multiple tasks at the same time, and as quantifier 'several', e.g. I have multiple friends in high society. Multiple is just one of several adjectives going down this path of grammaticalization. However, as we show in this paper, the trajectory of each adjective includes different micro-processes of change. New diachronic case studies on the grammaticalization of individual items thus remain crucial to further advance our understanding of the potential environments and changes underlying grammaticalization processes. The case of multiple shows that, firstly, not only attributes, but also classifiers can serve as input for grammaticalization, and that, secondly, grammaticalization and lexicalization processes can have non-adjacent functions in the noun phrase as their input and output. IntroductionChanges in the English noun phrase (henceforth NP) have been a fruitful topic of study within Walk is the head noun, which presents the type of thing instantiated by the referent. The definite article the fulfils the function of determiner and specifies the identifiability of the referent. Other functions that are of significance for the present article are the three types of modifiers associated with

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Breban

Gentens

2016

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“…Quirk et al 1972;Halliday & Hasan 1976;Bache 1997). As first suggested by Bache (1997:159-162) and further elaborated by Breban (2006:29-31), this continuum can be thought of in terms of three main structural-functional zones, concerned with determination, modification and categorization respectively.…”

Section: Left-right Order and The Subjective-objective Cline In The Ementioning

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“…Its elements specify how the instances of a type referred to by the NP can be related to the information about deictically anchored referents which the hearer has already deduced from the discourse so far. Determiners give either identifying or quantifying information in a broad sense (Bache 1997;Langacker 1991;Davidse 2004). Structurally, they occur either in the core, or primary, determiner position, or as pre-or postdeterminers, as illustrated in Figure 1.…”

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Type noun uses in the English NP

Davidse

Brems²,

Smedt³

2008

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This article addresses the relatively neglected question of identifying and characterizing the various uses ofsort,kindandtypein the English NP. It does so on the basis of close analysis of a set of data extracted from theTimessubcorpus of the COBUILD corpus. The proposed description refers to the general functions fulfilled by elements of the NP, which, from right to left, form an objective — subjective continuum. At the same time, we characterize the specific grammatical, collocational and discoursal patterns that can be observed to shape each use in the empirical data. In this way, we distinguish, besides the generally recognized head and qualifier uses, also modifier, postdeterminer and quantifier uses. We then consider these intra-NP type noun uses as a possible case of Adamson’s (2000) hypothesis, which correlates subjectification with leftward movement in the NP.

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“…Amiot and Van Goethem 2012). 2 The opposition is comparable to that between qualifying and classifying or relational adjectives: while the former are gradable (7a) and can be used predicatively (7b-c), the latter are not gradable (8a, 8c) and are only used attributively (8b) (Bache 2000: 160-162, Haeseryn et al 1997: 387, Halliday 1994: 180, Riegel et al 1999 In that light, the qualifying function of the nouns we are looking at is an important trigger in their reanalysis as qualifying adjectives. This is consistent with the fact that when they undergo debonding, they adopt, albeit gradually, the syntactic behavior of qualifying adjectives.…”

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“…All English N+N combinations show at least some degree of bondedness. The degree of bondedness is variable, however, and the literature therefore assumes a distinction between N+N compounds and N+N phrases, in the latter case typically referring to the first noun as a 'classifier' (Halliday 1994;Bache 2000). Generally, all N+N combinations resist separate modification of N1 and N2 (e.g.…”

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How nouns turn into adjectives

Goethem

Smet²

2014

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This study focuses on French, English and Dutch adjectives that arise through debonding from N+N (and N+A) compounds or compound-like sequences (e.g. the adjectival uses of English ‘key’ and Frenchclé“key”). Debonding is a type of degrammaticalization defined by Norde as “a composite change whereby a bound morpheme in a specific linguistic context becomes a free morpheme” (Norde, 2009: 186). We investigate for each of the three languages how the debonding process is impacted by three different factors: (1) the semantics of the noun subject to debonding, (2) the degree of prosodic and morphological cohesion of the sequence, (3) the presence of adjective inflection in the language. It is furthermore argued that in the case of Dutch, an additional process should be taken into account, that is the possibility of clipping of N+A compounds (e.g.stapel“lit. pile; madly in love” <stapelverliefd“lit. pile-in love; madly in love”).

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Essentials of Mastering English

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