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句子长度在时间与体裁中的变化

Variation of sentence length across time and genre

University of Freiburg(弗赖堡大学)

Karolina Rudnicka

AI总结:

本文利用COHA全文语料库检验书面英语句子长度随时间下降的假设,并以in order to频率下降为证据,揭示句子长度、体裁与句法用法变化之间的相互关联。

摘要:

本文的目标有三重:i) 展示在使用美国历史英语语料库(COHA)全文版——英语语言中最大的历时多体裁语料库——来研究语言变化趋势时的一些实践方面;ii) 检验一个被广泛持有的假设,即过去几个世纪中书面英语的句子长度一直在稳步下降;iii) 指出句子长度的变化与英语句法用法变化之间可能存在的联系。对第 iii) 点的实证概念验证由非限定性目的从属连词 in order to 的频率下降所提供。句子长度、体裁以及 in order to 出现可能性被证明是相互关联的。

英文摘要:

The goal of this paper is threefold: i) to present some practical aspects of using full-text version of Corpus of Historical American English (COHA), the largest diachronic multi-genre corpus of the English language, in the investigation of a linguistic trend of change; ii) to test a widely held assumption that sentence length in written English has been steadily decreasing over the past few centuries; iii) to point to a possible link between the changes in sentence length and changes in the English syntactic usage. The empirical proof of concept for iii) is provided by the decline in the frequency of the non-finite purpose subordinator in order to. Sentence length, genre and the likelihood of occurrence of in order to are shown to be interrelated.

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