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Record W2122331666 · doi:10.1017/s0954394513000148

Asymmetrical trajectories: The past and present of –<i>body</i>/–<i>one</i>

2013· article· en· W2122331666 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueLanguage Variation and Change · 2013
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicLinguistic Variation and Morphology
Canadian institutionsUniversity of TorontoUniversity of Victoria
FundersEconomic and Social Research Council
KeywordsDemiseVariation (astronomy)GlobeHistoryTRACE (psycholinguistics)LinguisticsGrammaticalizationLanguage changeSet (abstract data type)Variable (mathematics)Middle EnglishComputer scienceClassicsPsychologyPhilosophyMathematics

Abstract

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Abstract The set of English [+human] pronominal quantifiers has been variable for at least 500 years, with the compound forms – body and – one competing since Middle and Early Modern English. This change has still to run its course (cf. Nevalainen &amp; Raumolin-Brunberg, 2003:78). Using corpora of historical texts, we track the development of these variants alongside the demise of the earlier variant – man . Then, drawing on contemporary and regionally diverse corpora, we trace the continued development of – body /– one variation through the 20th century. The trajectories reveal paradigmatic leveling in the late 19th century and the rise of – one as the dominant form. However, grammatical, social, and lexical developments continue. Most striking is that after an initial phase of historical leveling, the different lexical quantifiers— any, every, some, no —go their own ways in the collection of varieties examined here, demonstrating that the mechanisms shaping evolutionary pathways across the globe are not only systemic, but also retain local alternations.

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metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.946
Threshold uncertainty score0.981

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Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Opus teacher head0.031
GPT teacher head0.288
Teacher spread0.256 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it