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with in ME verse. Almost one out of five examples fall under this
category as far as the present study is concerned. Thus the picture
of this condition makes a large contribution to the picture of the
whole sample, and in other words the deviation of this syntactic
condition from the overall situation, if it exists, appears smaller than
it in fact is. Still the chi-square test suggests that there is a clear
distinction in the usage of negation between declarative clauses with
the inverted word order than the whole sample at least as far as
Groupc 1 and 3 are concerned. The value given by the test for
Group 2 (9.29) is below the critical value at the five percent level
(9.49), but the difference between the two values is not large.23
Since a large proportion of the overall sample in fact includes
examples of the present syntactic condition, I have also applied the
chi-square test to the following tables which compare and contrast
the situation of declarative clauses in which the verb precedes the
subject and the situation of all the other examples:
(1) Declarative clauses with the inverted word order (Dec.V-S)
vs. examples which do not belong to this category (Group 1)
me/not I ne jne. . .not) not I - Totals)
Inever,no I - I + I I +
I Dec.V-S I 100 I 210 I 98 I 1 1 I 410 I
J(Group 1)1 (24.4%)) (51.2%)! (23.9%)) (0.2%)! (0.2%)!
I Others I 575 I 714 I 407 I 15 I 43 I 1754 I
I (32.8%)! (40.7%)! (23.2%)) (0.9%)) (2.5%)) I
(2) Declarative clauses with the inverted word order (Dec.V-S)
vs. examples which do not belong to this category (Group 2)
me/not i ne me. . .notl not I - I Totals)
Inever,no I - I + I I J + I I
I Dec.V-S I 118 I 163 I 87 I 72 I 133 I 573 I
I(Group2))(20.6%) (28.4%)I_(15.2%)I_(12.6%) (23.2%)I I
I Others I 448 I 492 208 I 181 301 I 1630 I
I I_( 27.5%)[ (30.2%))(12.8%)I_(11.1%) (18.5%fl
23 For some details of the chi-square test, see note 10 of this
chapter.
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