Abstract This paper explores the added value of studying intra- and inter-speaker variation in grammaticalisation based on idiolect corpora. It analyses the usage patterns of the English let alone construction in a self-compiled William Faulkner corpus against the backdrop of aggregated community data. Vast individual differences (early Faulkner vs. late Faulkner vs. peers) in frequencies of use are observed, and these frequency differences correlate with different degrees of grammaticalisation as measured in terms of host-class and syntactic context expansion. The corpus findings inform general issues in current cognitive-functional research, such as the from-corpus-to-cognition issue and the cause/consequence issue of frequency. They lend support to the usage-based view of grammaticalisation as a lifelong, frequency-sensitive process of cognitive automation. To substantiate this view, this paper proposes a self-feeding cycle of constructional generalisation that is driven by the interplay of frequency, entrenchment, partial sanction and habituation.

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作为频率敏感的自动化，语法化的生命周期变化：William Faulkner和更不用说的结构

摘要本文探讨了在基于idiolect语料库的语法化中研究说话者内部和说话者变异的附加价值。它在汇总社区数据的背景下分析了自编译的William Faulkner语料库中英语更不用说构建的用法模式。观察到使用频率方面存在巨大的个体差异（早期福克纳与晚期福克纳与同伴），并且这些频率差异与不同的语法化程度相关，如从宿主类别和句法语境扩展方面衡量的。语料库发现为当前认知功能研究中的一般问题提供了信息，例如从语料库到认知问题以及频率的原因/后果问题。他们支持基于使用的语法化一生的观点，认知自动化的频率敏感过程。为了证实这一观点，本文提出了一种结构概括的自给循环，该循环由频率，纠缠，部分制裁和习惯化的相互作用驱动。