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Regional variation and syntactic derivation of low-frequency need-passives on Twitter

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Strelluf, Christopher (2022) Regional variation and syntactic derivation of low-frequency need-passives on Twitter. Journal of English Linguistics, 50 (1). pp. 39-71. doi:10.1177/00754242211066971

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Abstract

This paper examines constructions formed by the verb need taking a passivized complement. While previous dialectological, sociolinguistic, and micro-syntactic analyses have focused primarily on the past-participle complement (need+ED) as a regional syntactic variable, this study expands the purview of need-passives to examine gerund-participle (need+ING) and infinitival (need+TO) complements. Data from Twitter confirm previous findings that need+ED is a productive feature of the US Midland, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Tyneside, England. However, tweets also show that need+ING is produced disproportionately frequently in England and Wales. Additionally, a transitive construction formed with need as a matrix verb is examined and found to co-vary regionally with need+ING. Syntactic analyses of tweets reveal similarities in the ways that need+ED and need+ING vary with need+TO. These findings lead to a proposed syntactic analysis that need+ED and need+ING share the same derivational structure. More generally, the work argues for greater attention in linguistic research to low-frequency features.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
P Language and Literature > PE English
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax , Principles and parameters (Linguistics) , English language -- Variation
Journal or Publication Title: Journal of English Linguistics
Publisher: SAGE Publications
ISSN: 0075-4242
Official Date: 1 April 2022
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1 April 2022Published
30 July 2021Accepted
Volume: 50
Number: 1
Page Range: pp. 39-71
DOI: 10.1177/00754242211066971
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Open Access
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