There are several types of absolute constructions (acs) in English. Among these, this article investigates the so-called what-with ac, which has not received much attention in the study of English grammar. This article considers the grammatical properties of the construction from a synchronic as well as a diachronic perspective, using much more representative and robust corpora than previous studies. Based on corpus data drawn from historical corpora such as COHA (Corpus of Historical American English, 400 million words), the article addresses questions about changes in the construction's syntactic, semantic and pragmatic properties. In addition, the article provides a Construction Grammar perspective, which supports previous research in arguing that the construction is undergoing the processes of grammatical constructionalization.

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英语what with absolute constructions: a Construction Grammar perspective

有几种类型的绝对结构（交流s) 用英语。其中，本文探讨了所谓的什么是交流，这在英语语法研究中并没有受到太多关注。本文从共时和历时的角度考虑结构的语法特性，使用比以往研究更具代表性和稳健性的语料库。基于从 COHA 等历史语料库中提取的语料库数据（历史美式英语语料库, 400,000,000 字），这篇文章解决了关于结构的句法、语义和语用属性变化的问题。此外，文章还提供了构式语法的观点，这支持了先前的研究，认为构式正在经历语法构式化的过程。