Abstract
This paper traces the diachronic development of prepositional phrases (PPs) with bare institutional/location nouns (e.g. go to church, stay in bed, die in prison) from Middle English to Late Modern English. Based on a dataset of 2,249 instances extracted from the Penn Parsed Corpora of Historical English (PPCME2, PPCEME, PPCMBE2), we investigate changes in the usage of these constructions (i.e. formal and functional features). One question addressed is why a definite determiner is apparently ‘missing’ in these constructions (died in prison rather than died in the prison) and what kind of semantic interpretation this lack of overt definiteness marking triggers. Moreover, we assess whether there is evidence of these PPs becoming increasingly integrated into the extended verb phrase, by zooming in on the patterns’ semantic functions and formal features. By using collostructional analyses as well as by fitting a conditional random forest model, we show that different constructional types can be identified, which differ regarding the association strength between the elements involved as well as regarding their preferred semantic function, among other things. These results are then discussed from a usage-based, cognitive constructional perspective, indicating that the constructions at hand force us to revisit traditional assumptions about phrase structure boundaries and compositionality.
Appendix: Investigated location nouns
barbican
barn
base
bay
bed
board
bureau
camp
chamber
chapel
childbed
church
class
club
college
country
court
cowpasture
crib
deck
dunghill
earth
field
gallery
gaol
glen
government
grammarschool
hall
harbour
haven
heaven
hell
hill
home
hospital
house
household
lake
land
market
mass
parliament
place
port
prison
qualmhouse
sanctuary
school
sea
ship
shipboard
shore
stage
street
synagogue
throne
town
valley
ward
warehouse
world
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Papers
- Go to church or die in prison: PPs with bare institutional nouns in the history of English
- Possessives as source of definite articles? Diachronic evidence from Persian
- Lenition of voiced stops in Kurdish
- Third-person singular present tense inflectional variation in Medieval and Early Modern English scientific texts: a corpus-based study
- The emergence of stand-alone insubordinate conditional clauses in Hungarian
- Tracing the origins and grammaticalization path of Irish English habitual do V: an analysis of the 1641 Depositions
- The diachronic development of the inchoative construction in Spanish: a case of constructionalization
- Negative correlative coordination in Indo-European: emergence, evolution and variability
- Book Reviews
- Xinyue Yao: The present perfect and the preterite in Late Modern and Contemporary English. A corpus-based study of grammatical change
- John D. Bengtson: Basque and its closest relatives. A new paradigm
- Stephanie Roussou and Philomen Probert: Ancient and medieval thought on Greek enclitics
- Sophia J. Oppermann: Coordination structures in Old and Middle High German
- Program Review
- IE10.com. Reconstructing Latin inscriptions with Aeneas