英语存在句主谓非一致变异的多变量研究  

A multivariate analysis of subject-verb non-agreement variation in English existential sentences

作　　者：郭鸿杰 张达球 GUO Hongjie;ZHANG Daqiu(School of Foreign Studies,Shanghai University of Finance and Economics,Shanghai 200433,China)

机构地区：[1]上海财经大学外国语学院,上海市200433

出　　处：《外语教学与研究》2020年第5期674-687,799,共15页Foreign Language Teaching and Research

基　　金：上海财经大学通识教育课程项目“全球化英语”(2020120082)成果。

摘　　要：本研究采用变异语言学理论,分析了在逻辑主语为复数的语境下,英语存在句主谓非一致变异模式及其制约因素。基于语料库的研究结果显示,在伦敦和渥太华两个英语地域变体中,主谓非一致存在句是一种常态,there’s使用频率最高,there was位居其次,但使用更稳定,历史更悠久。多变量分析结果显示,存在句语法变异的显著制约因素包括时态、地域、限定词、极性及辨识距离。此外,尽管存在句主谓非一致结构的使用频率存在差异,但其底层语法机制基本一致。该结果证明了存在句主谓非一致是一种有序而系统的语法变异。Within the variationist paradigm,this study attempts to explore the patterns of English existential sentences with plural subjects and the factors contributing to the variation in subject-verb non-agreement.The corpus-based research findings disclose an overwhelming preference for nonconcord existentials,and there’s has become a norm among the existential sentences.Secondary to there’s,there was enjoys a more stable status in the diachronic development.A multivariate analysis reveals that remarkable constraining factors of grammatical variation in existential sentences include tense,region,determiner,polarity and cue distance.The study also showcases a similar deep grammatical mechanism between different non-concord forms despite the discrepancy in their frequency,which evidences that non-concord turns out to be an orderly and systematic grammatical variation in existentials.

关 键 词：存在句 语法变异 语料库 非一致性 

分 类 号：H314.3[语言文字—英语]