Nous avons analysé l'utilisation de la liaison dans notre corpus qui contient des données du corpus d'Orléans. Nous avons comparé son utilisation en analysant des données venant de deux époques...Show moreNous avons analysé l'utilisation de la liaison dans notre corpus qui contient des données du corpus d'Orléans. Nous avons comparé son utilisation en analysant des données venant de deux époques différentes. La liaison a été faite dans la grande majorité des cas dans les deux époques mais il est probable qu'il y a une différence entre les deux époques. De plus, nous avons analysé des segments de certains locuteurs.Show less
Although much is a frequently occurring word of many uses, not much research has been done on the different types of much as a negative polarity item (NPI). Therefore, in this study, the NPI...Show moreAlthough much is a frequently occurring word of many uses, not much research has been done on the different types of much as a negative polarity item (NPI). Therefore, in this study, the NPI tendency of two different types of much were compared: differential and adnominal much. Generally, research shows that much tends to be an NPI, whereas differential much prefers non-negation over negation contexts. Thus, the hypothesis is that there would be a strong tendency towards adnominal much occurring as an NPI, whereas differential much would not be an NPI. From the British National Corpus (BNC), 500-instance samples were analysed, and later compared with BNC searches for specific instances (that much, very much, etc.) in order to confirm their validity. These results were divided into NEG – in which negation took place – and POS – in which (implicit) negation did not take place. The results showed that NEG differential much only occurred in 5% of the instances, whereas NEG adnominal much occurred in 28% of the instances. When both much types were combined with modifiers (i.e., very much, that much, so much, etc.), they mostly occurred in a POS context. The bare adnominal much instances – without any modifiers – are almost equally divided among NEG (100) and POS (109) instances. Overall, the NEG instances did not have a preference for a certain genre in comparison to their POS counterparts. The results imply that differential much is not an NPI, whereas adnominal much may have a tendency to occur in NPI contexts.Show less
