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5. CORPORA AND METHODOLOGY<br />

5.3.2.1. Nominalizations and coordination<br />

In this dissertation, nominals occurring in coordinated structures will be counted<br />

separately, as independent units, for statistical purposes. This applies also to cases of<br />

“unitary coordination”, that is, “those in which the conjoins are so closely linked in<br />

meaning as to be roughly synonymous or repetitive” (Fanego 1996: 112). Consider, for<br />

instance, the following examples from the corpus:<br />

(120) for the conservation and restauration of the health and natural<br />

constitution of mankind as well as all other aereal animals, (E3<br />

1665 Hooke The life and work of Robert Hooke)<br />

(121) (…) I haue read y=t= men in times past did (...) remedies, w=c=<br />

they had experienced & approoued for the curing and healing of<br />

any dangerous malady: (E2 1602 Clowes Treatise for the<br />

artificiall cure of struma)<br />

Counting coordinated nominals separately makes it necessary to establish different<br />

possibilities for the analysis of their dependents. There are three options:<br />

a. No ellipsis. In such cases, the dependents occurring in the coordinated structure<br />

belong to the nominal they accompany. Thus, in (122) observing has no<br />

dependents, whereas the NP the prosecution and the PP on particulars are the posthead<br />

dependents of the –ing formations reserving and enlarging respectively.<br />

Similarly, in (123) each nominal shows its own dependents. Thus, the –ing form<br />

going has the PossP the Suns as pre-head dependent, whereas coming has the<br />

possessive his as pre-head dependent and both the adverbial againe and the PP to<br />

the Meridian as post-head dependents.<br />

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