Multifactorial Analysis in Corpus Linguistics

This book presents a new analysis of the word-order alternation of English transitive phrasal verbs (aka Particle Movement) from a cognitive-functional and psycholinguistic perspective. Its main objective, however, is a methodological one, namely to demonstrate the superiority of corpus-based, multifactorial and probabilistic approaches towards grammatical phenomena over traditional analyses based on acceptability judgements and minimal pair tests.

List of figures

vii

List of tables

ix

Preface

xi

List of abbreviations

xii

Introduction

1

(11)

The scope of the study

1

(2)

The diachronic development of phrasal verbs

3

(2)

Theoretical assumptions

5

(2)

Outline of the study

7

(5)

Review of literature

12

(32)

Phonological variables

12

(1)

Morphosyntactic variables

13

(2)

Semantic variables

15

(3)

Discourse-functional variables

18

(3)

Other variables

21

(1)

Interim summary and critical evaluation

22

(22)

Objectives of this study

44

(4)

Key notions and hypotheses

48

(19)

Discourse-functional variables

49

(3)

Semantic variables

52

(4)

Morphosyntactic variables

56

(2)

Phonological variables

58

(1)

Remaining variables

58

(3)

Interim summary

61

(6)

The data

67

(12)

Origin of the corpus data

67

(2)

Treatment of the corpus data

69

(10)

Results and discussion

79

(53)

Monofactorial results

79

(22)

Pair-wise comparisons: the relative strengths of variables

101

(6)

Multifactorial results

107

(11)

Further evaluation

118

(14)

General discussion

132

(25)

Prototypes

132

(11)

Variability and grammar

143

(3)

Competing approaches to syntactic variation

146

(11)

The activation of constructions

157

(28)

Theoretical introduction

157

(9)

The relation of variables to activation

166

(8)

A network of variables and weighted (causal) relations

174

(6)

Interim summary

180

(5)

Conclusion and outlook

185

(7)

Summary

185

(2)

Outlook: implications and extensions

187

(5)

Appendices

192

(19)

List of variables

192

(2)

Register-dependent interaction plots

194

(9)

List of TPVs

203

(8)

References

211

(12)

Subject index

223

(2)

Author index

225

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Multifactorial Analysis in Corpus Linguistics A Study of Particle Placement

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