The indefinite pronoun man: “nominal“ or “pronominal”?

Bergen, Linda van

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“…There is robust evidence that man, or some weakened form thereof, could be a pronoun in OE and at least in the earliest stages of ME, analogous to modern German man. At some point in the history of English, pronominal man was lost, and various hypotheses have been put forth to describe and account for this loss (see in particular Raumolin-Brunberg & Kahlas-Tarkka 1997, Rissanen 1997, van Bergen 2000). The PPCME2 uses the part-of-speech (POS) tag MAN for the 'indefi nite pronoun MAN': 'If a given text clearly uses MAN (or also [the lexeme] ME in early texts) as a pronoun, then all unmodifi ed uses of subject MAN are tagged MAN'.…”

Section: Ayenbite Of Inwyt and The Book Of Vices And Virtuesmentioning

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Let us have articles betwixt us: Papers in Historical and Comparative Linguistics in Honour of Johanna L. Wood

Vikner¹,

Jørgensen²,

Gelderen³

2016

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Section: Ayenbite Of Inwyt and The Book Of Vices And Virtuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Let us have articles betwixt us: Papers in Historical and Comparative Linguistics in Honour of Johanna L. Wood

Vikner¹,

Jørgensen²,

Gelderen³

2016

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“You can’t control a thing like that”

Haas¹

2018

Studies in Corpus Linguistics

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Referential Null Subjects in Early English

Rusten¹

2019

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This book offers a large-scale quantitative investigation of referential null subjects as they occur in Old, Middle, and Early Modern English. Using corpus linguistic methods, and drawing on five corpora of early English, the book empirically addresses the occurrence of subjectless finite clauses in more than 500 early English texts, and excerpts of texts, spanning nearly 850 years of the history of English. The book gives an in-depth quantitative analysis of c.80,000 overt and null referential pronominal subjects in 181 Old English texts. On the basis of this substantial data material, the book re-evaluates previous conflicting claims concerning the occurrence and distribution of null subjects in Old English. The book critically addresses the question of whether the earliest stage of English can be considered a canonical or partial pro-drop language. It also provides an empirical examination of the role played by central licensors of null subjects proposed in the theoretical literature, including verbal agreement and Aboutness topicality. The predictions of two important pragmatic accounts of null arguments are also tested. In order to provide a longitudinal perspective, results are provided from an investigation of c.139,000 overt and null referential pronominal subjects occurring in more than 300 Middle and Early Modern English texts and text samples. Throughout, the book builds its arguments by means of powerful statistical tools, including generalized fixed-effects and mixed-effects logistic regression modelling, and is the most comprehensive examination so far provided of null subjects in the history of English.

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The indefinite pronoun man: “nominal“ or “pronominal”?

Cited by 14 publications

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Let us have articles betwixt us: Papers in Historical and Comparative Linguistics in Honour of Johanna L. Wood

Let us have articles betwixt us: Papers in Historical and Comparative Linguistics in Honour of Johanna L. Wood

“You can’t control a thing like that”

Referential Null Subjects in Early English

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