From reduction to emancipation : Is gonna a word?
Lorenz, David LU
(2013)
In Studies in Corpus Linguistics
57.
p.133-152
- Abstract
- In this paper I propose an emancipation effect that may follow from the ‘reducing effect’ of frequency (Bybee 2006): if a reduced realization of an item gains in frequency, it will become conceptually independent from the full form. In a context of grammaticalization, I show that this is the case for the form gonna, which is becoming emancipated from its source form going to. I use corpus data of spoken American English to trace the process of emancipation as gonna sheds off the features of phonetic reduction and acquires those of a lexical variant.
- Abstract (Swedish)
- In this paper I propose an emancipation effect that may follow from the ‘reducing effect’ of frequency (Bybee 2006): if a reduced realization of an item gains in frequency, it will become conceptually independent from the full form. In a context of grammaticalization, I show that this is the case for the form gonna, which is becoming emancipated from its source form going to. I use corpus data of spoken American English to trace the process of emancipation as gonna sheds off the features of phonetic reduction and acquires those of a lexical variant.
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- author
- Lorenz, David
LU
- publishing date
- 2013-06-27
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- host publication
- Corpus Perspectives on Patterns of Lexis
- series title
- Studies in Corpus Linguistics
- editor
- Hasselgård, Hilde ; Ebeling, Jarle and Oksefjell Ebeling, Signe
- volume
- 57
- pages
- 20 pages
- publisher
- John Benjamins Publishing Company
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85105709705
- ISSN
- 1388-0373
- ISBN
- 9789027203632
- 9789027271914
- DOI
- 10.1075/scl.57.11lor
- language
- English
- LU publication?
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- id
- e66a7bc6-1e2a-4233-a8e5-b5faea93fdbb
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- 2023-11-24 22:03:09
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