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Phrasal verbs in Early Modern English spoken language: a colloquialization conspiracy?
English Language & Linguistics ( IF 1.018 ) Pub Date : 2022-05-30 , DOI: 10.1017/s1360674322000065
PAULA RODRÍGUEZ-PUENTE , MARÍA OBAYA-CUELI

Phrasal verbs (e.g. fade away, give up) tend to be associated with spoken, colloquial registers, not only in Present-day English, but also in previous stages of the language. This view has recently been challenged by Thim's (2006a, 2012) ‘colloquialization conspiracy’, according to which the idea that phrasal verbs are colloquial is based on a misconception which first arose in the eighteenth century. In the current study we seek to verify Thim's claim by exploring phrasal verbs in A Corpus of English Dialogues 1560–1760, a 1.2-million-word corpus of Early Modern English (EModE) speech-related text types. Based on a sample of over 7,000 examples, we demonstrate that the linguistic features, distribution and high productivity of phrasal verbs in the EModE period point towards a full entrenchment of these combinations in the spoken language, which leads us to the conclusion that the colloquial status of phrasal verbs in EModE is not merely a matter of a ‘colloquialization conspiracy’.



中文翻译:

早期现代英语口语中的短语动词:口语化的阴谋?

短语动词(例如fade awaygive up)往往与口语、口语语域相关联,不仅在现代英语中,而且在该语言的早期阶段也是如此。这种观点最近受到 Thim(2006a,2012)“口语化阴谋”的挑战,根据该阴谋,短语动词是口语化的想法是基于一种首先出现于 18 世纪的误解。在当前的研究中,我们试图通过探索英语对话语料库 1560–1760中的短语动词来验证 Thim 的主张,一个包含 120 万个单词的早期现代英语 (EModE) 语音相关文本类型的语料库。基于 7,000 多个示例的样本,我们证明了 EModE 时期短语动词的语言特征、分布和高生产率表明这些组合在口语中的完全巩固,这使我们得出结论,口语状态EModE 中短语动词的变化不仅仅是“口语化阴谋”的问题。

更新日期:2022-05-30
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