Functional transposition of TILL and UNTIL from a diachronic perspective
The research traces the development of functional transposition of TILL and UNTIL in English. The study covers 16 historical periods and is based on 1,243 examples extracted from the writings from 850 to 1710, which are analyzed without resorting to any corpus software; 2,225 examples from 1710 to 1...
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| description | The research traces the development of functional transposition of TILL and UNTIL in English. The study covers 16 historical periods and is based on 1,243 examples extracted from the writings from 850 to 1710, which are analyzed without resorting to any corpus software; 2,225 examples from 1710 to 1920, which are automatically tagged utilizing the corpus toolbox Lancsbox; and the statistical data on 127,544 examples over the period of 1920–2020. It is hypothesized that despite being synonyms and representatives of the same grammatical categories of prepositions and conjunctions in modern English, the lexical units TILL and UNTIL were initially formed as prepositions and later, following their own transpositional patterns, they were transposed into conjunctions. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-bea9e0c43b4740be864e553f57edbc752025-01-31T08:34:31ZengSciendoExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics)2303-48582022-12-01102668910.2478/exell-2023-0001Functional transposition of TILL and UNTIL from a diachronic perspectiveKovbasko Yurii01Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine / Universidade Estadual do Centro Oeste, Guarapuava, BrazilThe research traces the development of functional transposition of TILL and UNTIL in English. The study covers 16 historical periods and is based on 1,243 examples extracted from the writings from 850 to 1710, which are analyzed without resorting to any corpus software; 2,225 examples from 1710 to 1920, which are automatically tagged utilizing the corpus toolbox Lancsbox; and the statistical data on 127,544 examples over the period of 1920–2020. It is hypothesized that despite being synonyms and representatives of the same grammatical categories of prepositions and conjunctions in modern English, the lexical units TILL and UNTIL were initially formed as prepositions and later, following their own transpositional patterns, they were transposed into conjunctions.https://doi.org/10.2478/exell-2023-0001functional transpositionprepositionconjunctionadverbold englishmiddle englishearly modern englishlate modern englishpresent-day english |
| spellingShingle | Kovbasko Yurii Functional transposition of TILL and UNTIL from a diachronic perspective ExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics) functional transposition preposition conjunction adverb old english middle english early modern english late modern english present-day english |
| title | Functional transposition of TILL and UNTIL from a diachronic perspective |
| title_full | Functional transposition of TILL and UNTIL from a diachronic perspective |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Functional transposition of TILL and UNTIL from a diachronic perspective |
| title_short | Functional transposition of TILL and UNTIL from a diachronic perspective |
| title_sort | functional transposition of till and until from a diachronic perspective |
| topic | functional transposition preposition conjunction adverb old english middle english early modern english late modern english present-day english |
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