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本文阐述一种基于语料库研究语言变化的方法,集中探讨英国英语和美国英语中最近的语法变迁。该研究方法对匹配的对应语料库进行比较,所用语料库均采用准确对等的抽样方法对间隔大致相同时间的书面语进行抽样提取语料样本。该研究揭示了英语用法增加和减少极为显著的模式,如进行体使用的增加与被动语态使用的减少,并通过口语化、语法化、美国化、密集化和规约化进程来解释上述变化。
This article describes a corpus-based approach to language change that focuses on recent grammatical changes in British English and American English. The research method compares the corresponding corpora corresponding to each other, and the corpora used in the corpus sample the corpus samples at intervals of about the same time by exact peer-to-peer sampling. The study revealed the remarkable additions and reductions in the use of English, such as the increase in volume use and the reduction in the use of passive voice, as well as the explanation of these changes through colloquialization, grammaticalization, Americanization, densification, and codification.