RT Dissertation/Thesis
T1 A corpus-based analysis of post-auxiliary ellipsis in modern English : methodological and theoretical issues
T2 Un estudo de corpus sobre a elipse post-auxiliar no inglés moderno : implicacións metodolóxicas e teóricas
A1 Gandon Chapela, Maria Evelynt
K1 5701.04 Lingüística Informatizada
K1 5702.01 Lingüística Histórica
K1 5705.13 Sintaxis, Análisis Sintáctico
AB My research focuses on the study of grammatical change in the recent history of the English language; in particular, I am currently writing my PhD dissertation on Post-Auxiliary Ellipsis from Early Modern English to Present-Day English. In this PhD project, I analyse and compare the different factors that appear to influence Post-Auxiliary Ellipsis in Present-Day English with earlier stages of the language (Late Modern English).The concept of ellipsis refers to a syntactic strategy in which expected elements have been left unpronounced in certain constructions. This omission triggers a mismatch between meaning (the intended message) and sound (what is in fact uttered). In particular, my research focuses on those examples of Post-Auxiliary Ellipsis (Miller 2011, Miller and Pullum 2013), i.e. ellipsis types that occur after the following licensors (that is, those elements that license ellipsis): modal verbs, auxiliaries be, have and do, infinitival marker to and negator not. The main aim is to carry out an empirical analysis of Post-Auxiliary Ellipsis from Late Modern English to Present-Day English (1700-1914), both quantitatively and qualitatively, by means of data retrieved from the Penn Corpora of Historical English. This project pays attention to syntactic variation, genre distribution and discourse variables (type of anaphora, mismatches in polarity, aspect, voice, modality, tense; comparison of clause types; distance, linking, type of focus).
YR 2016
FD 2016-04-12
LK http://hdl.handle.net/11093/687
UL http://hdl.handle.net/11093/687
LA eng
NO Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad | Ref. FFI 2013-44665-P
DS Investigo
RD 05-dic-2024