Word Order in 17th Century English: A Study of the Stabilisation of the XSV PatternNovus, 2003 - 220 pages |
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WORD ORDER PATTERNS IN THE CORPUS | 9 |
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0001 period II-III 17th century affirmative declarative AUX inversion average inversion rate Bækken cf section clause combined complex verb phrases dominate Early Modern English exemplified following p values given elements given subject gives the following GOSJ initial adverbials initial direct objects initial non-negative adverbial initial subject predicatives intransitive and linking intransitive verbs inversion in structures JELG late texts linking verbs longitudinal development LTJC negative and non-negative negative initial elements nominal subjects non-negative structures occur order in structures passive structures pattern period I-III periphrastic postverbally prepositional phrases present data pronominal subjects pronouns proportion sentence adverbials shows the following significant decrease significantly more frequent simple and complex simple verb phrases structures with initial structures with negative structures with simple structures with transitive three periods three types types of verb typically verbs period VP inversion WCDD WCIN word orders WWBB XSV and XVS XVS structures