The Integration of MILLION into the English System of Number Words
A Diachronic Study
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Beschreibung
In den Studien der Reihe English Corpus Linguistics wird die englische Sprache auf der Grundlage computergestützter und korpusbasierter Analysen untersucht. Behandelte Themen sind die korpuslinguistische Beschreibung des Englischen und seiner geschichtlichen Entwicklung sowie die weitere Entwicklung der korpuslinguistischen Methodologie, insbesondere die Verknüpfung von korpusbasierten Erkenntnissen mit sprachtheoretischen Ansätzen und Beiträgen zur sprachwissenschaftlichen Modellbildung.
This corpus study traces the history of MILLION in English. It focuses on the shift in word class/function from noun/noun-phrase head (three millions of dollars) to determinative/determiner (three million dollars). A chapter on morphosyntax/semantics probes the natural word class and function of number words and their historical categorization. A composite international diachronic corpus is used to map a broad taxonomy of MILLION phrases, and very-large-scale digital American and British newspaper archives are used to show when and where the syntactic shift took place. The tens of billions of datable words in these sources yield such robust results that key phases in the shift can be traced in unprecedented detail, uncovering surprising patterns in American/British differences and an avoidance strategy in the use of numeral and number-word expressions. Retarding and accelerating factors are treated in separate chapters.
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Donald S. MacQueen
Themen in »The Integration of MILLION into the English System of Number Words«
Diachronic Donald Engl English Integration Kohnen language change MacQueen natural word class Number number words numerals Study System Thomas