Of-genitive versus s-genitive. A corpus-based analysis of possessive constructions in 20th-century English
- This paper examines genitive Variation in English, using two methodological approaches. In the manual approach, we extract genitive variants from the parsed subcorpora of the text category J (academic writing) in the B-Brown (1931), the Brown (1961) and the Frown (1991/2) corpora. Focussing on the syntactic parameter, we illustrate how the principle of end-weight gains ground from 1930 to 1990. The automatic approach implements the constraints of the manual approach, confirms the findings of the manual approach and is used to scale to British English. Methodologically, we show how to automatically sift out irrelevant corpus examples whose identification would normally need human intervention - in particular, apparent examples of the two main genitive English constructions which are not in genuine alternation.
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| Author: | Melanie Röthlisberger, Gerold SchneiderORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-127778 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-8233-6760-4 |
| Parent Title (English): | New methods in historical corpora |
| Series (Serial Number): | Korpuslinguistik und interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf Sprache | Corpus Linguistics and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Language | CLIP (3) |
| Publisher: | Narr |
| Place of publication: | Tübingen |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2013 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2024/08/07 |
| Publishing Institution: | Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) [Zweitveröffentlichung] |
| Publicationstate: | Zweitveröffentlichung |
| Reviewstate: | (Verlags)-Lektorat |
| GND Keyword: | Britisches Englisch; Genitiv; Historische Sprachwissenschaft; Korpus <Linguistik> |
| First Page: | 163 |
| Last Page: | 179 |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Korpuslinguistik |
| Licence (German): |  Urheberrechtlich geschützt |