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1、SyntacticvariationinEnglishquantifiednounphraseswithall,whole,bothandhalfActaWexionensiaNr38/2004HumanioraSyntacticvariationinEnglishquantifiednounphraseswithall,whole,bothandhalfMariaEstlingVannestålVäxjöUniversityPressAbstractEstlingVannestål,Maria,2004.Syntacticvariation
2、inEnglishquantifiednounphraseswithall,whole,bothandhalf,ActaWexionensianr38/2004.ISSN:1404-4307,ISBN:91-7636-406-2.WritteninEnglish.TheoverallaimofthepresentstudyistoinvestigatesyntacticvariationincertainPresent-dayEnglishnounphrasetypesincludingthequantifiersall,whole,both
3、andhalf(e.g.ahalfhourvs.halfanhour).Morespecificresearchquestionsconcernstheoverallfrequencydistributionofthevariants,howtheyaredistrib-utedacrossregionsandmediaandwhatlinguisticfactorsinfluencethechoiceofvariant.Thestudyisbasedoncorpusmaterialcomprisingthreenewspapersfrom1
4、995(TheIndependent,TheNewYorkTimesandTheSydneyMorningHerald)andtwospokencorpora(thedialoguecomponentoftheBNCandtheLongmanSpokenAmericanCorpus).Thebookpresentsanumberofpreviouslynotdiscussedissueswithrespecttoall,whole,bothandhalf.Thestudyofdistributionshowsthatoneformoftenp
5、redominatedgreatlyovertheother(s)andthattherewereseveralcasesofre-gionalvariation.Anumberoflinguisticfactorsfurtherseemtobeinvolvedforeachofthevariablesanalysed,suchasthesyntacticfunctionofthenounphraseandthepresenceofcertainelementsintheNPoritsnearco-text.Foreachofthevaria
6、bles,allfactorswererankedaccordingtotheirstrengthofcorrelationwithparticularvariants.Thestudyalsodiscussesapossiblegrammaticalisationproc-essconcerningNPswithhalfandthepossibilityofallsometimeshavinganotherfunctionthanexpressingtotality:toexpresslargequantity.Thewholeideaof
7、grammaticalsynonymyhasbeenquestionedbysomescholars,buttheconclusiondrawninthepresentstudyisthattherearevariablesthatareatleastveryclosetoeachotherinmeaning,andthatanumberoflinguis-ticandnon-linguisticfactorsinfluenceourchoicesofvariant.Agreatdealoftheinformationobtainedwast
8、oodetailedtobeusefulforpedagogicalpurposes,butinseveralcasestheresultscouldclearly
