Between You and I: A Methodological, Mixed-method Corpus-pragmatic Approach to Hypercorrect Uses of Subject Pronouns in Object Position

The present paper takes a corpus-pragmatic approach to an issue traditionally situated at the interface of sociolinguistics, grammatical prescriptivism and syntax: the use of the hypercorrect structures <X and I> and <I and X> in object position and British and American English speakers’...

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Veröffentlicht in:Corpus pragmatics : international journal of corpus linguistics and pragmatics Jg. 7; H. 4; S. 377 - 399
Hauptverfasser: Kirner-Ludwig, Monika, Oberhofer, Kathrin, Heiss, Julia
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cham Springer International Publishing 01.12.2023
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Computational Linguistics
Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities
Linguistics
Original Paper
Pragmatics
Semantics
Social Sciences
Corpus query language
Formulaic prestige constructions
Sketch Engine
Hypercorrect constructions
Telecinematic dialogue
Pronoun binomials
Subject and object case
ISSN:2509-9507, 2509-9515
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Zusammenfassung:The present paper takes a corpus-pragmatic approach to an issue traditionally situated at the interface of sociolinguistics, grammatical prescriptivism and syntax: the use of the hypercorrect structures <X and I> and <I and X> in object position and British and American English speakers’ usage of such pronoun binomials as prestige constructions. Here, we dedicate significant space to the meta-methodological level pertaining to the corpus-linguistic challenges entailed in systematically identifying relevant occurrences of coordinated noun phrases that feature at least one nominal component unambiguously case-marked. We use a self-compiled corpus of 14,165,810 words of transcribed telecinematic discourse in order to not only establish the extent of any hypercorrect usage, but also to see it in relation with unmarked and both grammatically correct and incorrect uses of the subject and object forms.
ISSN:2509-9507
2509-9515
DOI:10.1007/s41701-023-00152-z