Diachronic patterns of usage of no doubt in the English Historical Book Collection (EEBO, ECCO and EVANS)
This study offers a collocate analysis of the modal marker no doubt (ND) in the EEBO, ECCO and EVANS combined corpora using Sketch Engine. The purpose is to determine the diachronic patterns of usage of ND, and secondly to compare results with the conclusions of existing diachronic pragmatic studies...
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| description | This study offers a collocate analysis of the modal marker no doubt (ND) in the EEBO, ECCO and EVANS combined corpora using Sketch Engine. The purpose is to determine the diachronic patterns of usage of ND, and secondly to compare results with the conclusions of existing diachronic pragmatic studies of modal markers. The first step identified five patterns of behaviour based on AM score in decreasing order of frequency: 1 – NDB (no doubt but); 2 – TISND (there is no doubt); 3 – MND (make no doubt); 4 – (ND (parenthetical use); 5 – Ndont (no doubt on’t). The second step consisting in partitioning of the corpus following Hilpert and Gries (2016) produced 3 distinct periods based on EHBO data (1580-1669, 1670-1759, 1760-1799). The findings showed that the relative usage of ND for each period remained remarkably consistent, especially the persistence of non-grammaticalized behaviours MND and TISN. The two major disparities, concerning NDont and parenthetical (ND, were shown to be of likely significance for the changing pragmatic behaviour of ND, which further diachronic study may be able to ascertain. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-66bdd6928650497e8d9dbd7ec52bfeca2025-01-31T08:34:31ZengSciendoExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics)2303-48582018-10-016113610.2478/exell-2019-0004exell-2019-0004Diachronic patterns of usage of no doubt in the English Historical Book Collection (EEBO, ECCO and EVANS)Smith Chris A.0CRISCO EA4255, Université de Caen Normandie, FranceThis study offers a collocate analysis of the modal marker no doubt (ND) in the EEBO, ECCO and EVANS combined corpora using Sketch Engine. The purpose is to determine the diachronic patterns of usage of ND, and secondly to compare results with the conclusions of existing diachronic pragmatic studies of modal markers. The first step identified five patterns of behaviour based on AM score in decreasing order of frequency: 1 – NDB (no doubt but); 2 – TISND (there is no doubt); 3 – MND (make no doubt); 4 – (ND (parenthetical use); 5 – Ndont (no doubt on’t). The second step consisting in partitioning of the corpus following Hilpert and Gries (2016) produced 3 distinct periods based on EHBO data (1580-1669, 1670-1759, 1760-1799). The findings showed that the relative usage of ND for each period remained remarkably consistent, especially the persistence of non-grammaticalized behaviours MND and TISN. The two major disparities, concerning NDont and parenthetical (ND, were shown to be of likely significance for the changing pragmatic behaviour of ND, which further diachronic study may be able to ascertain.https://doi.org/10.2478/exell-2019-0004sketch enginecollocate analysisdiachronic corpusgrammaticalizationmodal markereeboeccoevans |
| spellingShingle | Smith Chris A. Diachronic patterns of usage of no doubt in the English Historical Book Collection (EEBO, ECCO and EVANS) ExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics) sketch engine collocate analysis diachronic corpus grammaticalization modal marker eebo ecco evans |
| title | Diachronic patterns of usage of no doubt in the English Historical Book Collection (EEBO, ECCO and EVANS) |
| title_full | Diachronic patterns of usage of no doubt in the English Historical Book Collection (EEBO, ECCO and EVANS) |
| title_fullStr | Diachronic patterns of usage of no doubt in the English Historical Book Collection (EEBO, ECCO and EVANS) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Diachronic patterns of usage of no doubt in the English Historical Book Collection (EEBO, ECCO and EVANS) |
| title_short | Diachronic patterns of usage of no doubt in the English Historical Book Collection (EEBO, ECCO and EVANS) |
| title_sort | diachronic patterns of usage of no doubt in the english historical book collection eebo ecco and evans |
| topic | sketch engine collocate analysis diachronic corpus grammaticalization modal marker eebo ecco evans |
| url | https://doi.org/10.2478/exell-2019-0004 |
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