15世紀英語における定形節と非定形節 (1)

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In my Syntax and Style in Early English -Finite and Non-finite Clauses c.900-1600 (abbreviated as SSEE below), I have pointed out that both the proportion and number of non-finite clauses approximately equal those of finite clauses in the 15th century corpus. However, the 15th century corpus only consists of three prose and two verse texts and the dates of the texts examined, are not well balanced, since the corpus contains only one text of the last quarter of the 15th century. Hence, in the following four papers I shall try to explore the clauses under consideration more closely for each quarter of a century, by comparing the findings in each quarter century corpus with those in the 15th century corpus. The syntactic description in this paper is based on the corpus of the first quarter of the 15th century (often called the present corpus) . The present corpus contains a lower proportion of non-finite clauses than the 15th century corpus in SSEE : there is, however, a slight increase in the use of infinitives and gerunds, while present and past participles show a sharp decrease, in comparison to those found in the 15th century corpus. A close examination of each functional category reveals that the syntactic development can be seen in infinitives as subjects, past participles (+S) , gerunds as objects, infinitives as adjuncts (+purpose), present participles (+S) and infinitives as adjective modifications.
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2005-03-31