Syntactic Productivity
Syntactic Productivity
Syntactic Productivity
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7) There is a clear correlation between judgments and the mean age of the participants.<br />
Younger speakers are generally more acceptant while the older ones are less<br />
acceptant.<br />
8) This correlation is strongest for the Caused-Motion construction for all three verbs.<br />
9) There is also a correlation between participant age, judgment and the age of the<br />
technology in the society. Faxing has existed longest and then email which has<br />
existed in Iceland for the last 15 years. Older speakers prefer the verbs faxa and<br />
(e)meila in the Transfer and the Ditransitive construction and disprefer them in the<br />
Caused-Motion construction. Older speakers also prefer sms-a, which represents the<br />
most recent technology, only in the Transfer construction. Whether this is because<br />
older speakers are more conservative, or because they have been less exposed to<br />
the technology and its accompanying language, is difficult to know.<br />
Bergen Jóhanna Barðdal June 5, 2008
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