| Title: | Flipping the on/off switch: change in progress in the prepositional complements of verbs like "base" : lecture at the American Dialect Society, Annual Conference, January 8, 2023 |
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| Authors: | ID Tabachnick, Guy (Author)
ID MacKenzie, Laurel (Author) |
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| Files: |  Tabachnick_ADS-2023.pdf (1,07 MB)
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 https://americandialect.org/wp-content/uploads/American-Dialect-Society-2023-sked-grid-20221227.pdf
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| Language: | English |
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| Work type: | Unknown |
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| Typology: | 3.15 - Unpublished Conference Contribution |
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| Organization: | UNG - University of Nova Gorica
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| Abstract: | Traditionally, verbs like base, survive, and capitalize have combined with the preposition on to express a meaning of derivation (based on). Since 2000, the use of off (of) in this construction has rapidly risen in prevalence and acceptability (Curzan, 2013; Behrens, 2014; Janda, 2020). We confirm the relative increase of off in this construction in a corpus of posts from the discussion website Reddit and in two other corpora in both real and apparent time, and find verb-specific effects on rate of off usage. |
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| Keywords: | Morpho-Syntactic Variation, prepositions, Reddit corpus, American English |
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| Year of publishing: | 2023 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/RUNG-8919  |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 187564035 |
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| UDC: | 81 |
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| NUK URN: | URN:SI:UNG:REP:Y6VK9Q9L |
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| Publication date in RUNG: | 04.03.2024 |
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