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1、AppliedLinguisticsAdvanceAccesspublishedMarch1,2012AppliedLinguistics2012:126ßOxfordUniversityPress2012doi:10.1093/applin/ams003GeneralExtendersandGrammaticalization:InsightsfromLondonPreadolescentsSTEPHENLEVEYUniversityofOttawaDownloadedfromE-mail:slevey@uottawa.caThissmall-s
2、calestudyinvestigatesvariationintheuseofgeneralextenders(e.g.andeverything,orsomething,andallthat)inthespeechofagroupofBritishchildrenaged7to11years.Theoverarchingaimsofthestudyaretoinvestigatehttp://applij.oxfordjournals.org/whetherpreadolescentsuseofgeneralextendersissociall
3、ymotivated,andtoexplorewhethercompetinggeneralextendervariantsmaybesituatedonaclineofgrammaticalization,asdeterminedbyasetofgrammaticalizationindicestar-getingthestructuralpropertiesandthesemantic-pragmaticfunctionsoftheseconstructions.Theresultsoftheinvestigationrevealgender-
4、differentiatedpat-ternsingeneralextenderuse,andindicatethatproductivevariantsarediffer-entiallyaffectedbyprocessescollectivelyassociatedwithgrammaticalization.Thefindingscorroboratechildrensparticipationincontemporarypatternsofgeneralextendervariation,andcontributemoregenerall
5、ytoempiricalcharac-atSichuanInternationalStudiesUniversityonJune15,2012terizationsofchildrensacquisitionofdiscourse-pragmaticvariation.INTRODUCTIONAcursoryglanceatlinguistictrendsincontemporaryvarietiesofEnglishre-vealsanumberofvigorousdiscourse-pragmaticchangesinprogress.Well
6、-knownchangesfoundinthespeechofEnglish-speakingyouthincludequotativebelike(e.g.Imlike,Whatshedoing?;TagliamonteandDArcy2007);discoursemarkerlike(e.g.likeitsnotsuchabigdeal;DArcy2005a);andin-novativeintensifiers(e.g.hespuregoodactually;Macaulay2006).Manyoftheseinnovationshavebe
7、enexaminedfromtheperspectiveofgrammatical-ization,aprocesswhichinvolvesarelatedsetofsemantic-pragmaticandstruc-turalchangeswherebylexicalitemsorconstructionscometoservegrammaticalfunctions,orgrammaticalitemsacquirenewgrammaticalfunc-tionsovertime(HopperandTraugott2003:1).Resea
8、rchershaverecentlyappealedtotheprocessofgrammaticalizationtoe
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