Lexical Specificity and Allostructional VariationSubject Pronoun Omission in World Englishes
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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- Francisco Gallardo-del-Puerto (coord.)
- Mª del Carmen Camus-Camus (coord.)
- Jesús Ángel González-López (coord.)
Editorial: Editorial de la Universidad de Cantabria ; Universidad de Cantabria
ISBN: 978-84-19024-15-2
Año de publicación: 2022
Páginas: 118-124
Congreso: Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos. Congreso (44. 2021. Santander)
Tipo: Aportación congreso
Resumen
The aim of the present paper is to measure the degree of lexical specificity of the omitted subject pronoun construction and its competing variant, the overt subject pronoun construction, across varieties of English. Four different indexes of lexical specificity are computed by resorting to the family of collostructional analyses and regression modelling strategies. Following previous claims in the literature, the study tests whether there exists a correlation between a variety’s developmental stage in the Dynamic Model and how substantive or schematic its constructional representations are. The results shed light on the adequacy of different methods to measure lexical specificity and show that, for competing constructions, it is necessary to employ methods that rigorously account for syntactic variation.