What corpora tell us about the grammaticalisation of voice in get -constructions

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ID20381945
AuthorsMarianne Hundt (0000-0001-6045-2314, University of Freiburg, corresponding author)
Year2001
Volume25
Issue1
Pages49-87
Publication date2001-11-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueStudies in Language (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0378-4177 • E-ISSN: 1569-9978
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/sl.25.1.03hun
OpenAlexW2092265075
LanguageEN
Citations received15

Grammaticalisation studies are a potential meeting ground for theoretical linguistics and corpus-based approaches. The present paper uses evidence from the ARCHER corpus to investigate the relationship between frequency and the grammaticalisation of the get -passive. It seeks to verify whether the grammaticalisation of the passive function is reflected in an increase in the overall frequency of get , and whether grammaticalised patterns of get have spread at the expense of its lexical use. Givón/Yang (1993) have singled out several patterns that were involved in the grammaticalisation of the get -passive. Data from ARCHER are analysed to find out which of these patterns were frequent and which were of marginal importance. Finally, evidence from standard one-million-word corpora is used to test existing hypotheses on the maturation of the get -‘passive’. These data show that it has not lost its middle semantics and come closer to a true passive

Biology · Grammaticalization · Linguistics · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research

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