EAN: 9783631534533

A CORPUS-BASED STUDY OF PROPER NAMES IN PRESENT...

Based on a large sample of press data extracted from the British National Corpus (BNC)  the
book undertakes a detailed investigation of present-day English proper names  an important but
under-researched area in English linguistics. Employing the statistical technique of binary
logistic regression  this book presents a new method of analysing non-discrete categories in
linguistics with reference to the grammatical notion of gradience and the principle of
parsimony. The focus is particularly on the grammatical factors influencing the choice between
use and non-use of the definite article - a well-known issue of uncertainty in modern English.
The study also concentrates on multi-word organisation names  which have been little studied 
although they occur frequently in newspaper language and have special characteristics of their
own. By making precise predictive statements about the conditions under which the definite
article is preferred or dispreferred  the book is also able to shed light on the theory of
linguistic performance.

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