Whereas the alternation between the s-genitive (the New Year's message) and the of-genitive (the message of the New Year) is well documented, our study offers a more accountable analysis of genitive variation by including noun-noun (NN)-genitives (the New Year message). We consider four different variable contexts (s versus of, NN versus of, NN versus s, and NN versus s versus of ), which we analyze using regression analysis. The dataset consists of 10,054 variable genitives drawn from the Representative Corpus of Historical English Registers. The material covers the period between 1650 and 2000, thus enabling us to track the evolution of variable genitive grammar in real time. We report that there is an overall drift toward the NN-genitive, which is preferred over other variants when constituent noun phrases are short, possessor constituents are inanimate, and possessum constituents are thematic. In addition to these substantive contributions, we showcase methods of dealing with a complex dataset covering nonbinary grammatical variation.

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走向更多的责任：在晚期现代英语中建模三元属格变体

而之间的交替s-属格（新年寄语) 和的-属格（新年的讯息) 有据可查，我们的研究通过包括名词-名词 (NN)-属格 (新年寄语）。我们考虑四种不同的变量上下文（s相对的, NN 与的, NN 与s, 和 NN 与s相对的)，我们使用回归分析进行分析。数据集由 10,054 个可变属格组成历史英语名录的代表性语料库. 该材料涵盖了 1650 年至 2000 年之间的时期，从而使我们能够实时跟踪可变属格语法的演变。我们报告说，当成分名词短语很短，拥有者成分是无生命的，而拥有者成分是主题时，NN-属格总体上会发生漂移，这比其他变体更受欢迎。除了这些实质性贡献之外，我们还展示了处理涵盖非二进制语法变化的复杂数据集的方法。