A Corpus-Based Diachronic Study of a Change in the Use of Non-Finite Clauses in Written English

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dc.contributor.authorMalá Marcelacs
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-25T12:19:35Z
dc.date.available2018-09-25T12:19:35Z
dc.date.issued2018cs
dc.description.abstractOccasional notes in secondary literature suggest that there is a growing tendency to use non-fi nite clauses in written English. It is partly attributed to the fact that during the process of historical development the English fi nite verb has lost much of its dynamism and the nominal elements of predication, namely infi nitives, participles and gerunds have gradually become semantically more important. is paper deals with the occurrences of non-fi nite clauses in the tagged Brown/Frown and LOB/F-LOB corpora, which are matching corpora of American English and British English respectively. e article looks at 1) the use of noun phrases followed by -ing participles, -ed participles and to-infi nitives, 2) the use of -ing/-ed clauses with/without overt subordinators and 3) the occurrences of to-infinitive clauses. When the structural patterns 1), 2) and 3) were taken as wholes there was always an increase in the frequency of occurrence of non-fi nite clauses demonstrated by hundreds of examples in the Frown and F-LOB corpora. is may be considered signifi cant since there is only a 30-year diff erence between the Brown/Frown and LOB/F-LOB corpora. e fi ndings thus completely support the premise that when the perspective of the research is diachronic, in written English non-fi nite clauses are becoming increasingly prominent.
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dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1515/pjes-2017-0009
dc.identifier.issn1804-8722cs
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.tul.cz/handle/15240/31978
dc.identifier.urihttps://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/pjes/6/1/article-p151.xml
dc.language.isoengcs
dc.publisherde Gruytercs
dc.publisher.cityBerlincs
dc.relation.ispartofPrague Journal of English Studies
dc.relation.ispartofseries0cs
dc.subjectCorpus-based diachronic researchcs
dc.subjectfinite/non-finite clausescs
dc.subjectwritten Englishcs
dc.subjectsyntactic functions of clausescs
dc.subjectlanguage changecs
dc.titleA Corpus-Based Diachronic Study of a Change in the Use of Non-Finite Clauses in Written Englishcs
local.citation.epage151-166cs
local.citation.spage151-166cs
local.identifier.publikace5449
local.relation.issue1cs
local.relation.issue1
local.relation.volume6
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