The diachronic development of zero complementation: A multifactorial analysis of the that/zero alternation with think, suppose, and believe

Shank, Christopher; Bogaert, Julie Van; Plevoets, Koen

doi:10.1515/cllt-2015-0074

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“…10. Also in the literature on English complementation, we do not find agreement with respect to the effect of subject coreferentiality in relation to the that/Ø alternation (cf Shank et al 2016;Cuyckens et al 2014;Torres Cacoullos & Walker 2009)…”

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Asyndetic complementation and referential integration in Spanish

Mazzola

Cornillie

Rosemeyer

2022

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This paper examines a distinctive syntactic feature of (pre)classical Spanish: asyndetic complementation (without complementizer que ‘that’). While many authors regard this construction as a stylistic variant which eventually declined (i.a., Girón 2005), so far no exhaustive morphosyntactic study of the phenomenon has been presented, as previous works either have focused on only one predicate (Blas Arroyo & Porcar Miralles 2016, 2018) or do not contain detailed quantitative data (Pountain 2015). Using evidence from richly annotated corpus data spanning between 1400 and 1799 (GITHE 2015), we adopt the diachronic probabilistic grammar framework (Szmrecsanyi 2013) by means of multifactorial statistical models, to identify the language-internal probabilistic constraints that regulated the que/Ø alternation, and to explore whether their relevance changed diachronically. The results indicate that asyndetic complementation is promoted in the domain of manipulation verbs (e.g., requests and commands) and, more generally, by the semantic and syntactic integration of events (Givón 2001a). Diachronically we observe that some of the effects strengthened over time, suggesting a syntactic specialization process, which might have eventually led to the restricted and marked use of the asyndeton in Modern Spanish.

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“…However, this variable has been investigated in studies regarding complementation in English (cf. Shank et al 2016;Cuyckens et al 2014;Torres Cacoullos & Walker 2009).…”

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Asyndetic complementation and referential integration in Spanish

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Cornillie

Rosemeyer

2022

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“…The choice between English complement clauses with or without that (in what follows: that-CCs and zero-CCs) is one of the most extensively studied grammatical alternations of modern linguistics: it suffices to sample the state-of-art sections and reference lists in Shank, Plevoets, and Van Bogaert (2016), Kruger and Van Rooy (2016) and Wulff, Gries, and Lester (2018) -to mention just a few recent studies rooted in different linguistic subdisciplines -to get an impression of the size and diversity of this body of existing work.…”

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“…Geeraerts and Kristiansen 2015: 370). Applied to that vs. zero, the multifactorial analysis by Shank, Plevoets, and Van Bogaert (2016), for instance,…”

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Intra- and Inter-textual Syntactic Priming in Original and Translated English

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Colleman²,

Ghyselen³

2021

Cognitive Sociolinguistics Revisited

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This article presents and discusses the results from a corpus-based study on the variation between English complement clauses with and without that in original versus translated English. The study is primarily aimed at disentangling the effects of, on the one hand, intratextual structural priming, i.e. the influence from a relevantly similar construction produced earlier in the (target) text, and, on the other hand, intertextual priming from the source text to the target text, i.e. the influence from a relatively similar source language construction encountered in the to be translated stretch of source text. The results indicate that whereas regular intratextual priming has the expected effect in the original English texts, this effect disappears in the translated texts, where intertextual priming turns out to be the most relevant mechanism.

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“…These examples were then coded as described in Section 3.2. variable and value are provided). The selection of potentially significant factors was drawn from the literature, and comprises semantic, structural and other additional factors (cf Bresnan and Hay 2008;Nam et al 2013;Cuyckens et al 2014;Deshors and Gries 2016;Shank et al 2016…”

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Synchronic Variability in the Complementation Profile of REMEMBER: Finite vs Non-Finite Clauses in Indian and British English

García-Castro

2019

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This paper explores the prevalent simplification of morphosyntactic features occurring in Postcolonial Englishes (cf. e.g. Williams 1987) by addressing the hypothesis that finite complement clauses (CCs) should be more common in these varieties than a non-finite counterpart due to their higher explicitness. The hypothesis is tested in two varieties of English, British English as a reference variety and Indian English, exploring the complementation profile of REMEMBER by means of a corpus-based approach. In addition, a variable analysis aims at shedding light on the language-internal features potentially conditioning the choice between CCs in competition. The results partially confirm the hypothesis; there is a larger proportion of finite CCs in Indian English than in British English but non-finite CCs are the most common option in the two varieties. Furthermore, not only simplification, but also other factors such as substrate influence or second-language acquisition processes may be responsible for the distribution found in Indian English. As for language-internal features, while some factors condition the choice across varieties, others are variety-specific.

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The diachronic development of zero complementation: A multifactorial analysis of the that/zero alternation with think, suppose, and believe

Abstract: This corpus-based study examines the diachronic development of the

Cited by 11 publications

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Asyndetic complementation and referential integration in Spanish

Asyndetic complementation and referential integration in Spanish

Intra- and Inter-textual Syntactic Priming in Original and Translated English

Synchronic Variability in the Complementation Profile of REMEMBER: Finite vs Non-Finite Clauses in Indian and British English

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