A Study of Non-Finite Forms of Anaphoric do in the Spoken BNC
“British do” (sometimes referred to as “propredicate” or “substitute” do) is a non-finite form of intransitive do, used as an anaphor in conversational British English. It is rarely used in other varieties of English, and American speakers, in particular, tend to consider its usage ungrammatical. Br...
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| description | “British do” (sometimes referred to as “propredicate” or “substitute” do) is a non-finite form of intransitive do, used as an anaphor in conversational British English. It is rarely used in other varieties of English, and American speakers, in particular, tend to consider its usage ungrammatical. British do has received very little attention in the literature, particularly in comparison with other anaphoric phenomena involving do, such as ellipsis. What has been written has been mainly descriptive in nature and based on contrived or literary examples. No in-depth analysis has been carried out on a corpus based on real data that is representative of English usage. In this article I present the first study based on empirical data, i.e. 486 occurrences of British do taken from the spoken BNC. I also discuss the initial results of this study, which tend to disprove much of what has heretofore been written on the subject, and raise further questions to be addressed. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-d2f43b96b87142c1bd2180ce2c86d78c2025-01-30T12:32:51ZengPresses Universitaires du MidiAnglophonia1278-33312427-04662019-12-012810.4000/anglophonia.2936A Study of Non-Finite Forms of Anaphoric do in the Spoken BNCKimberly Oger“British do” (sometimes referred to as “propredicate” or “substitute” do) is a non-finite form of intransitive do, used as an anaphor in conversational British English. It is rarely used in other varieties of English, and American speakers, in particular, tend to consider its usage ungrammatical. British do has received very little attention in the literature, particularly in comparison with other anaphoric phenomena involving do, such as ellipsis. What has been written has been mainly descriptive in nature and based on contrived or literary examples. No in-depth analysis has been carried out on a corpus based on real data that is representative of English usage. In this article I present the first study based on empirical data, i.e. 486 occurrences of British do taken from the spoken BNC. I also discuss the initial results of this study, which tend to disprove much of what has heretofore been written on the subject, and raise further questions to be addressed.https://journals.openedition.org/anglophonia/2936verbal anaphoracorpus linguisticsspoken BNCBritish DOpropredicate DO |
| spellingShingle | Kimberly Oger A Study of Non-Finite Forms of Anaphoric do in the Spoken BNC Anglophonia verbal anaphora corpus linguistics spoken BNC British DO propredicate DO |
| title | A Study of Non-Finite Forms of Anaphoric do in the Spoken BNC |
| title_full | A Study of Non-Finite Forms of Anaphoric do in the Spoken BNC |
| title_fullStr | A Study of Non-Finite Forms of Anaphoric do in the Spoken BNC |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Study of Non-Finite Forms of Anaphoric do in the Spoken BNC |
| title_short | A Study of Non-Finite Forms of Anaphoric do in the Spoken BNC |
| title_sort | study of non finite forms of anaphoric do in the spoken bnc |
| topic | verbal anaphora corpus linguistics spoken BNC British DO propredicate DO |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/anglophonia/2936 |
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