Social Networks and Historical Sociolinguistics

The extravagant progressive: an experimental corpus study on the history of emphatic [beVing]

“…It is therefore essential that historical syntacticians fully embrace this individual cognitive dimension. While historical sociolinguists have occasionally ventured into intra- and intergenerational grammatical changes in a network of individuals (Fitzmaurice 2004; Bergs 2005; Raumolin-Brunberg & Nurmi 2011, among others), they have generally made use of resources that are quite limited in size, and make it impossible to do quantitative research on incipient stages of change. Linguistic theory has also discussed the importance of the individual dimension to a certain extent.…”

Tekstyno duomenimis pagrįstas britų anglų kalbos konstrukcijų su veiksmažodiniais daiktavardžiais CHAT, TALK ir CONVERSATION tyrimas

“…3 deverbal nouns take to form LVCs: more prototypical types have higher frequencies and combine with a greater variety of light verbs, while less prototypical constructions gradually decrease in these aspects. However, the types do not show distinct patterns in the number of deverbal nouns and syntactic configurations (Bergs, 2005).…”

“…The research demonstrates that light verb constructions of the frame have a V exhibit systematic behaviour; however, despite the similarities in their structural descriptions, they follow different formulae and must be ascribed to different subtypes (Wierzbicka, 1982). Bergs (2005) explores four prototypical types of LVCs in the collection of Paston letters and papers written in the late Middle English in terms of their frequency, variety of light verbs used to form LVCs, the number of deverbal nouns and syntactic configurations. The study reveals that distinct types differ in frequency and variety of light verbs that ISSN 1392-8600 E-ISSN 1822 Žmogus ir žodis / Svetimosios kalbos / 2018, t. 20, Nr.…”

“…The nominal component, though derived from the verb, is called a deverbal noun somebody in command. LVCs of type 1, 2 and 4 are usually substitutable by a simple verb, while the ones of type 3 do not allow such a substitution (Bergs, 2005). Bergs claims that all the types of LVCs show a different degree of prototypicality.…”

A Sustainable, Semi‐Continuous Flow Synthesis of Hydantoins

“…Given these diverse applications, a number of different synthetic approaches to construct the hydantoin core and to provide varying degrees of N‐substitution have been developed (Figure ) . The classical multi‐component Bucherer–Bergs method relies on the thermal decomposition of ammonium carbonate in the presence of a carbonyl to yield an intermediate imine, which in turn is trapped by an inorganic cyanide. The resulting α‐amino group then reacts with the carbon dioxide released by the ammonium carbonate decomposition to yield the desired N,N‐unsubstituted hydantoin.…”