The semantic and grammatical overlap of as and that
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Daniela Kolbe-Hanna
Abstract
Literature on British dialects (overview in Kortmann 2005: 1095) has already widely reported the use of the as-relativizer. However, as also occurs as complementizer in non-standard English. This paper explores how the lexis-grammar interface enables one lexeme – as – to become a non-standard grammatical variant of another lexeme – that – in two grammatical functions. The fact that as and that are of demonstrative origin enables the use of both items in anaphoric and cataphoric contexts. Whilst diachronic corpus data support the grammaticalization of that and of the as-relativizer as described in the Oxford English Dictionary, the grammaticalization of the complementizer as remains unclear. This paper offers an alternative path of grammaticalization based on observations in synchronic corpus data and parallels in as-constructions.
Abstract
Literature on British dialects (overview in Kortmann 2005: 1095) has already widely reported the use of the as-relativizer. However, as also occurs as complementizer in non-standard English. This paper explores how the lexis-grammar interface enables one lexeme – as – to become a non-standard grammatical variant of another lexeme – that – in two grammatical functions. The fact that as and that are of demonstrative origin enables the use of both items in anaphoric and cataphoric contexts. Whilst diachronic corpus data support the grammaticalization of that and of the as-relativizer as described in the Oxford English Dictionary, the grammaticalization of the complementizer as remains unclear. This paper offers an alternative path of grammaticalization based on observations in synchronic corpus data and parallels in as-constructions.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
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Part I. Setting the scene
- Technology and phraseology 15
- Corpus-driven approaches to grammar 33
- Valency – item-specificity and idiom principle 49
- Fowler’s Modern English Usage at the interface of lexis and grammar 69
- The psycholinguistic reality of collocation and semantic prosody (1) 89
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Part II. Considering the particulars
- The lexicogrammar of present-day Indian English 117
- The semantic and grammatical overlap of as and that 137
- The historical development of the verb doubt and its various patterns of complementation 153
- The grammatical properties of recurrent phrases with body-part nouns 171
- A corpus-based investigation of cognate object constructions 189
- Revisiting the evidence for objects in English 211
- Lexico-functional categories and complex collocations 229
- Polysemy and lexical priming 247
- Local textual functions of move in newspaper story patterns 265
- Loud signatures 289
- Index 317
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
-
Part I. Setting the scene
- Technology and phraseology 15
- Corpus-driven approaches to grammar 33
- Valency – item-specificity and idiom principle 49
- Fowler’s Modern English Usage at the interface of lexis and grammar 69
- The psycholinguistic reality of collocation and semantic prosody (1) 89
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Part II. Considering the particulars
- The lexicogrammar of present-day Indian English 117
- The semantic and grammatical overlap of as and that 137
- The historical development of the verb doubt and its various patterns of complementation 153
- The grammatical properties of recurrent phrases with body-part nouns 171
- A corpus-based investigation of cognate object constructions 189
- Revisiting the evidence for objects in English 211
- Lexico-functional categories and complex collocations 229
- Polysemy and lexical priming 247
- Local textual functions of move in newspaper story patterns 265
- Loud signatures 289
- Index 317
