The aim of this paper is to identify the effect of register variation in spoken British English on the occurrence of the four principal verb-forming suffixes: ‑ate, ‑en, ‑ify and ‑ize, by building on the work of Biber et al. (1999) , Plag et al. (1999) and Schmid (2011) . Register variation effects were compared between the less formal Demographically-Sampled and the more formal Context-Governed components of the original 1994 version of the British National Corpus. The pattern of ‑ize derivatives revealed the most marked register-based differences with respect to frequency counts and the creation of neologisms, whereas ‑en derivatives varied the least compared with the other three suffixes. Quantitative and qualitative analyses of these suffix profiles in the context of spoken language reveal markers of register formality that have not hitherto been explored; derivative usage patterns provide an additional dimension to previous research on register variation which has mainly focused on grammatical and lexical features of language.

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记录英式英语口语的变化

本文的目的是通过建立在 Biber 等人的工作基础上，确定英式英语口语中的语域变异对四个主要动词形成后缀的出现的影响：-ate、-en、-ify 和 -ize . (1999), Plag 等。(1999) 和施密德 (2011)。在 1994 年英国国家语料库的原始版本中，比较不太正式的人口抽样和更正式的上下文管理组件之间的注册变异效应。‑ize 派生词的模式揭示了在频率计数和新词创建方面最显着的基于音域的差异，而 ‑en 派生词与其他三个后缀相比变化最小。在口语语境中对这些后缀特征的定量和定性分析揭示了迄今为止尚未探索过的语域形式标记；派生使用模式为先前主要关注语言的语法和词汇特征的语域变化研究提供了一个额外的维度。