Towards an Empirical Characterisation and a Corpus-Driven Taxonomy of Fragments in Written Contemporary English

  1. Yolanda Fernández-Pena 1
  1. 1 Universidade de Vigo
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    Universidade de Vigo

    Vigo, España

    ROR https://ror.org/05rdf8595

Revista:
RAEL: revista electrónica de lingüística aplicada

ISSN: 1885-9089

Año de publicación: 2021

Volumen: 20

Número: 1

Páginas: 136-154

Tipo: Artículo

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Resumen

Este estudio investiga ‘fragmentos’ en inglés contemporáneo. Los fragmentos son constituyentes estructuralmente no canónicos que tienen el significado proposicional de una cláusula completa, como Good Old Hendon next stop o What a weirdo. Esta investigación constituye un enfoque innovador sobre el tema ya que (i) explora los fragmentos en el discurso escrito exclusivamente y (ii) tiene como objetivo elaborar una taxonomía basada en corpus y una descripción empírica de las construcciones, estrategias y fenómenos clasificables como fragmentos basada en criterios lingüísticos objetivables (formales/textuales), dos cuestiones poco exploradas en la literatura previa. Los resultados revelan que los fragmentos no son infrecuentes en los registros escritos, especialmente en las cartas y las novelas/historias. Los tipos más frecuentes identificados son frasales y sin verbo, seguidos de clausales, wh- y Small Clauses. La mayoría muestran una gran proporción de omisión de sujeto y/o verbo, recuperables en el contexto mediante elementos funcionales o elementos léxicos latentes justificados por la construcción en la que aparecen.

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