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Genre/Form: | Thèses et écrits académiques |
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Material Type: | Document, Thesis/dissertation |
Document Type: | Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Kimberly Oger; Wilfrid Rotgé; Laure Gardelle; Philip H Miller, linguiste).; Graham Ranger; Saghie Sharifzadeh; Sorbonne université (Paris / 2018-....).; École doctorale Concepts et langages (Paris).; Centre de linguistique en Sorbonne (Paris / 2014-....). |
OCLC Number: | 1140399005 |
Notes: | Titre provenant de l'écran-titre. |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Responsibility: | Kimberly Oger ; sous la direction de Wilfrid Rotgé. |
Abstract:
This dissertation presents research across the main types of verb-phrase anaphora involving DO, viz. do this/that/it anaphora, do so anaphora, post-auxiliary ellipsis (PAE) and British English DO. Each anaphor underwent close analysis based on a sample of several hundreds of occurrences retrieved from the BNC and the COCA, as well as Bos & Spenader's (2011) corpus. Different variables were studied including register, the grammatical status of DO, semantic and syntactic properties of antecedent triggers, identity of subjects and states of affairs, the presence or absence of contrastive and non-contrastive adjuncts, as well as polar, modal, aspectual, temporal and voice alternations.One item of particular interest involves British English DO which bears a strong resemblance to PAE, except that it involves non-finite forms of DO and is generally restricted to British conversational English. Unlike PAE, British English DO has never before been the focus of study based on empirical data. In this research, 483 naturally-occurring examples taken from the Spoken component of the BNC as well as the accompanying metadata and recorded material were fully examined. Sociolinguistic and situational information was investigated, as were the linguistic properties and discourse conditions that make the use of British English DO felicitous. The result has led to a far better understanding of the phenomenon. In particular, it was found that British English DO can be considered a sub-type of PAE, which involves non-finite forms of auxiliary DO.
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