Constructional schemas in variation Modelling contrastive negation

被引:7
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作者
Silvennoinen, Olli O. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Helsinki, Dept Languages, POB 24 Unioninkatu 40, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland
关键词
contrastive negation; corpus linguistics; focus; grammatical variation; multiple correspondence analysis; Principle of No Synonymy; usage-based linguistics;
D O I
10.1075/cf.00009.sil
中图分类号
H [语言、文字];
学科分类号
05 ;
摘要
This paper discusses constructional variation in the domain of contrastive negation in English, using data from the British National Corpus. Contrastive negation refers to constructs with two parts, one negative and the other affirmative, such that the affirmative offers an alternative to the negative in the frame in question (e.g. shaken, not stirred; not once but twice; I don't like it - I love it). The paper utilises multiple correspondence analysis to explore the degree of synonymy among the various constructional schemas of contrastive negation, finding that different schemas are associated with different semantic, pragmatic and extralinguistic contexts but also that certain schemas do not differ from each other in a significant way.
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