Like I said again and again and over and over
On the ADV1 and ADV1 construction with adverbs of direction in English
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12621602 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Magnus Levin (0000-0001-7292-8084, Linnaeus University, corresponding author), Hans Lindquist (Malmö University) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 7-34 |
| Publication date | 2013-05-13 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Corpus Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1384-6655 • E-ISSN: 1569-9811 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/ijcl.18.1.04lev |
| OpenAlex | W2116354796 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
This study discusses an adverbial pattern which has so far been largely overlooked, namely ADV1 and ADV1, as in again and again, on and on and over and over. The paper is primarily based on the Corpus of Historical American English (COHA) and the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). The data show that these patterns follow typical paths of change, such as a movement towards more abstract meanings (metaphorization; over and over increasingly referring to repetition rather than to physical motion), lexicalization (e.g. up and up being used as a noun with idiosyncratic meaning in on the up and up), subjectification (e.g. on and on expressing negative connotations), iconic variation (again and again and again referring to multiple repetitions), simplification (loss of again after over and over), and the development of discourse functions (and on and on meaning “and so on”)
Adverbial · Aesthetics · American English · Coca · Epistemology · Grammaticalization · Lexicalization · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Movement (music · Noun · Repetition (rhetorical device · Sociology · Subjectification · Variation (astronomy · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · History · Lexicography and Language Studies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy
Twentieth-Century English
Change in Contemporary English
Formulaic Language and the Lexicon
Subjectification in grammaticalisation
Disentangling the phraseological web
(Inter)subjectivity and (inter)subjectification
The Corpus of Contemporary American English as the first reliable monitor corpus of English
Longman grammar of spoken and written English
Corpus linguistics and theoretical linguistics
Two quantitative methods of studying phraseology in English
A corpus-driven approach to formulaic language in English
Corpus linguistics and theoretical linguistics
From Usage to Grammar
The 385+ million word Corpus of Contemporary American English (1990-2008+)
Construction After Construction and its Theoretical Challenges
| Highly cited | No |
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