“I Regret Lying" vs. “I Regret that I Lied"Variation in the Clausal Complementation Profile of REGRET in American and British English

  1. Raquel P. Romasanta 1
  1. 1 Universidade de Vigo
    info

    Universidade de Vigo

    Vigo, España

    ROR https://ror.org/05rdf8595

Revista:
Miscelánea: A journal of english and american studies

ISSN: 1137-6368

Ano de publicación: 2022

Número: 65

Páxinas: 37-58

Tipo: Artigo

Outras publicacións en: Miscelánea: A journal of english and american studies

Resumo

El desarrollo y el cambio histórico en el sistema de complementación del inglés ha recibido mucha atención, pero queda trabajo por hacer en relación con el estudio del inglés actual. Estudios previos del verbo regret han demostrado que en inglés británico la elección entre una oración de complemento con that y una oración de gerundio en -ing es no categórica o probabilística y el hablante puede elegir entre ellas. Esta variación no categórica es el tema central del presente artículo, que tiene como objetivo identificar las diferencias existentes en el perfil de complementación clausal del verbo regret en el inglés británico y americano, así como las variables lingüísticas que pueden determinar la elección del hablante.

Referencias bibliográficas

  • Aceto, Michael. 2004. “Eastern Caribbean English-derived Language Varieties: Phonology”. In Schneider, Edgar W. (ed.) Varieties of English: The Americas and the Caribbean. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter: 290-311. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511607240
  • Algeo, John. 2006. British or American English? A Handbook of Word and Grammar Patterns. Cambridge: Cambridge U.P.
  • Bernaisch, Tobias. 2013. “The Verb-complementational Profile of Offer in Sri Lankan English”. In Huber, Magnus and Joybrato Mukherjee (eds.) Corpus Linguistics and Variation in English: Focus on Non-native Englishes. Helsinki: Varieng. . Accessed February 10, 2021.
  • Cuyckens, Hubert, Frauke D’hoedt and Benedikt Szmrecsanyi. 2014. “Variability in Verb Complementation in Late Modern English: Finite vs. Non-finite Patterns”. In Hundt, Marianne (ed.) Late Modern English Syntax. Cambridge: Cambridge U.P.: 182-204. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139507226.014
  • Davies, Mark. 2012. “Examining Recent Changes in English: Some Methodological Issues”. In Nevalainen, Terttu and Elizabeth C. Traugott (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of the History of English. Oxford: Oxford U.P.: 263-287.
  • Davies, Mark. 2013. “Corpus of Global Web-Based English: 1.9 Billion Words from Speakers in 20 Countries”. . Accessed February 8, 2017.
  • Davies, Mark and Robert Fuchs. 2015. “Expanding Horizons in the Study of World Englishes with the 1.9 Billion Word Global Web-based English Corpus (GloWbE)”. English World-Wide 36 (1): 1-28. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/eww.36.1.01dav
  • De Smet, Hendrik. 2013. Spreading Patterns: Diffusional Change in the English System of Complementation. New York: Oxford U.P. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199812752.001.0001
  • Deshors, Sandra C. 2015. “A Constructionist Approach to Gerundial and Infinitival Verb Complementation Patterns in Native and Hong Kong English Varieties”. English Text Construction 8 (2): 207-235. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/etc.8.2.04des
  • Deshors, Sandra C. and Stefan Th. Gries. 2016. “Profiling Verb Complementation Constructions across New Englishes: A Two-step Random Forest Analysis of ing vs. to Complements”. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 21 (2): 192-218. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.21.2.03des
  • Di Domenico, Elisa. 2017. “Introduction”. In Di Domenico, Elisa (ed.) Syntactic Complexity from a Language Acquisition Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing: 1-22.
  • Fanego, Teresa. 1996a. “On the Historical Development of the English Retrospective Verbs”. Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 97: 71-79.
  • Fanego, Teresa. 1996b. “The Development of Gerunds as Objects of Subject-control Verbs in English (1400-1760)”. Diacronica 13: 29-62. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.13.1.03fan
  • Fanego, Teresa. 1996c. “The Gerund in Early Modern English: Evidence from the Helsinki Corpus”. Folia Linguistica Historica 17 (1-2): 97-152. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/flih.1996.17.1-2.97
  • Fanego, Teresa. 1998. “Developments in Argument Linking in Early Modern English Gerund Phrases”. English Language and Linguistics 2: 87-119. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674300000708
  • Fanego, Teresa. 2004a. “On Reanalysis and Actualization in Syntactic Change: The Rise and Development of English Verbal Gerunds”. Diachronica 21: 5-55. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.21.1.03fan
  • Fanego, Teresa. 2004b. “Some Strategies for Coding Sentential Subjects in English: From Expectation to Grammaticalization”. Studies in Language 28: 321-361. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.28.2.03fan
  • Fanego, Teresa. 2007. “Drift and Development of Sentential Complements in British and American English from 1700 to the Present Day”. In Pérez-Guerra, Javier, Dolores González-Álvarez, Jorge Luis Bueno-Alonso and Esperanza Rama-Martínez (eds.) “Of Varying Language and Opposing Creed”: New Insights into Late Modern English. Bern: Peter Lang: 161-235.
  • Fanego, Teresa. 2010. “Variation in Sentential Complements in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century English: A Processing-based Explanation”. In Hickey, Raymond (ed.) Eighteenth-century English. Cambridge: Cambridge U.P.: 200-220. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511781643.012
  • Fanego, Teresa. 2016. “The Great Complement Shift Revisited: The Constructionalization of ACC-ing Gerundives”. Functions of Language 23 (1): 84-119. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/fol.23.1.05fan
  • Field, Andy, Jeremy Miles and Zoë Field. 2012. Discovering Statistics Using R. London: SAGE.
  • Fischer, Olga. 1988. “The Rise of the for NP to V Constructions: An Explanation”. In Nixon, Graham and John Honey (eds.) An Historic Tongue: Studies in English Linguistics in Memory of Barbara Strang. London: Routledge: 67-88. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003074687-7
  • FrameNet. 2015. “FrameNet Project”. . Accessed May 3, 2017.
  • García-Castro, Laura. 2018. “Variation in Verbal Complementation Patterns in Nativised Varieties of English: The Case of Remember in Indian English”. In Ferrández San Miguel, María and Claus-Peter Neuman (eds.) Taking Stock to Look Ahead: Celebrating Forty Years of English Studies in Spain. Zaragoza: Prensas Universitarias de la Universidad de Zaragoza: 207-213.
  • García-Castro, Laura. 2019. “Synchronic Variability in the Complementation Profile of Remember: Finite vs. Non-finite Clauses in Indian and British English”. Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies 59: 137-164.
  • García-Castro, Laura. 2020. “Finite and Non‐finite Complement Clauses in Postcolonial Englishes”. World Englishes 39: 411-426. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12481
  • Givón, Thomas. 1985. “Iconicity, Isomorphism and Non-arbitrary Coding in Syntax”. In Haiman, John (ed.) Iconicity in Syntax. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins: 187-219. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.6.10giv
  • Green, Clarence. 2017. Patterns and Development in the English Clause System: A Corpus-based Grammatical Overview. Singapore: Springer.
  • Greenbaum, Sidney. (ed.) 1996. Comparing English Worldwide: The International Corpus of English. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  • Heyvaert, Liesbet and Hubert Cuyckens. 2010. “Finite and Gerundive Complementation in Modern and Present-day English: Semantics, Variation and Change”. In Winters, Margaret E., Heli Tissari and Kathryn Allan (eds.) Historical Cognitive Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter: 132-159. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110226447.132
  • Hoffmann, Thomas and Lucia Siebers. (eds.) 2009. World Englishes – Problems, Properties and Prospects. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/veaw.g40
  • Lange, Claudia and Sven Leuckert. 2020. Corpus Linguistics for World Englishes: A Guide for Research. London/New York: Routledge. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429489433
  • Leech, Geoffrey, Marianne Hundt, Christian Mair and Nicholas Smith. 2009. Change in Contemporary English: A Grammatical Study. Cambridge: Cambridge U.P. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511642210
  • Loureiro-Porto, Lucía. 2017. “ICE vs GloWbE: Big Data and Corpus Compilation”. World Englishes 36 (3): 448-470. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12281
  • Mair, Christian. 2006. “Nonfinite Complement Clauses in the Nineteenth Century: The Case of Remember”. In Kytö, Merja, Mats Rydén and Erik Smitterberg (eds.) Nineteenth-century English: Stability and Change. Cambridge: Cambridge U.P.: 215-228.
  • Mair, Christian. 2013. “The World System of Englishes: Accounting for the Transnational Importance of Mobile and Mediated Vernaculars”. English World-Wide 34 (3): 253-278. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/eww.34.3.01mai
  • Ortega, Lourdes. 2003. “Syntactic Complexity Measures and their Relationship to L2 Proficiency: A Research Synthesis of College-level L2 Writing”. Applied Linguistics 24 (4): 492-518. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/24.4.492
  • Quirk, Randolph, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech and Jan Svartvik. 1985. A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. London: Longman.
  • Rohdenburg, Günter. 1995. “On the Replacement of Finite Complement Clauses by Infinitives in English”. English Studies 4: 367-388. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00138389508598980
  • Rohdenburg, Günter. 1996. “Cognitive Complexity and Increased Grammatical Explicitness in English”. Cognitive Linguistics 7 (2): 149-182. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/cogl.1996.7.2.149
  • Rohdenburg, Günter. 2006. “The Role of Functional Constraints in the Evolution of the English Complementation System”. In Dalton-Puffer, Christiane, Dieter Kastovsky, Nikolaus Ritt and Herbert Schendl (eds.) Syntax, Style and Grammatical Norms: English from 1500-2000. Bern: Peter Lang: 143-166.
  • Rohdenburg, Günter. 2009. “Nominal Complements”. In Rohdenburg, Günter and Julia Schlüter (eds.): 194-211. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511551970.011
  • Rohdenburg, Günter. 2015. “The Embedded Negation Constraint and the Choice between More or Less Explicit Clausal Structures in English”. In Höglund, Mikko, Paul Rickman, Juhani Rudanko and Jukka Havu (eds.) Perspectives on Complementation: Structure, Variation and Boundaries. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan: 101-127. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137450067_6
  • Rohdenburg, Günter and Julia Schlüter. (eds.) 2009. One Language, Two Grammars? Differences between British and American English. Cambridge: Cambridge U.P. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511551970
  • Rohdenburg, Günter and Julia Schlüter. 2009. “Introduction”. In Rohdenburg, Günter and Julia Schlüter (eds.): 1-12. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511551970.001
  • Romasanta, Raquel P. 2017. “Contact-induced Variation in Clausal Verb Complementation: The Case of Regret in World Englishes”. Alicante Journal of English Studies 30: 121-147. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14198/raei.2017.30.05
  • Romasanta, Raquel P. 2019. “Variability in Verb Complementation: Determinants of Grammatical Variation in Indigenized L2 Varieties of English”. In Parviainen, Hanna, Mark Kaunisto and Päivi Pahta (eds.) Corpus Approaches into World Englishes and Language Contrasts. Helsinki: Varieng. . Accessed February 10, 2021.
  • Romasanta, Raquel P. 2021a. “Substrate Language Influence in Postcolonial Asian Englishes and the Role of Transfer in the Complementation System”. English Studies 102 (8): 1151-1170. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2021.1966968
  • Romasanta, Raquel P. 2021b. “A Morphosyntactic Approach to Language Contact in African Varieties of English”. Studia Neophilologica: 1-24. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00393274.2021.1978314
  • Romasanta, Raquel P. 2021c. “Negation as a Predictor of Clausal Complement Choice in World Englishes”. English Language and Linguistics: 1-23. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674321000241
  • Rudanko, Juhani. 2011. Changes in Complementation in British and American English: Corpus-based Studies of Non-finite Complements in Recent English. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Schneider, Edgar W. 2007. Postcolonial English: Varieties around the World. Cambridge: Cambridge U.P. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511618901
  • Steger, Maria and Edgar W. Schneider. 2012. “Complexity as a Function of Iconicity: The Case of Complement Clause Constructions in New Englishes”. In Kortmann, Bernd and Benedikt Szmrecsanyi (eds.) Linguistic Complexity: Second Language Acquisition, Indeginization, Contact. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter: 156- 191. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110229226.156
  • Vosberg, Uwe. 2009. “Non-finite Complements”. In Rohdenburg, Günter and Julia Schlüter (eds.): 212-227. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511551970.012
  • Williams, Jeffrey P., Edgar W. Schneider, Peter Trudgill and Daniel Schreier. (eds.) 2015. Further Studies in Lesser-known Varieties of English. Cambridge: Cambridge U.P. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139108652