Laura Abalo-Dieste - Passivisation and relativisation as

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Laura Abalo-Dieste, Javier Pérez-Guerra
Proceedings of the International Conference 'Corpus Linguistics - 2021', Scythia, St. Petersburg, 2021, pp. 54-64

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Abalo-Dieste, L., & Pérez-Guerra, J. (2021). Passivisation and relativisation as colloquialisation strategies in spoken present-day English: A corpus-based study. In Proceedings of the International Conference 'Corpus Linguistics - 2021' (pp. 54–64). St. Petersburg: Scythia.

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Abalo-Dieste, Laura, and Javier Pérez-Guerra. “Passivisation and Relativisation as Colloquialisation Strategies in Spoken Present-Day English: A Corpus-Based Study.” In Proceedings of the International Conference 'Corpus Linguistics - 2021' 54–64. St. Petersburg: Scythia, 2021.

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Abalo-Dieste, Laura, and Javier Pérez-Guerra. “Passivisation and Relativisation as Colloquialisation Strategies in Spoken Present-Day English: A Corpus-Based Study.” Proceedings of the International Conference 'Corpus Linguistics - 2021' Scythia, 2021, pp. 54–64.

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@inproceedings{abalo-dieste2021a,
  title = {Passivisation and relativisation as colloquialisation strategies in spoken present-day English: A corpus-based study},
  year = {2021},
  address = {St. Petersburg},
  pages = {54-64},
  publisher = {Scythia},
  author = {Abalo-Dieste, Laura and Pérez-Guerra, Javier},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference 'Corpus Linguistics - 2021'}
}

Abstract

This corpus-based study aims to determine whether colloquialisation is a process affecting written English or a general tendency of the English language that can also be attested in speech. To that end, this study investigates two syntactic clausal processes evincing variation in twenty-first century English due to a process of colloquialisation: passivisation and relativisation. The first phenomenon is explored through the overall productivity of passive predicates, and of be- and get-passive constructions. The second phenomenon is investigated by analysing choices between, on the one hand, who and whom, and which versus that/zero relativisers. The data are collected from the Spoken BNC2014 and the BNC1994DS corpora, as well as from the F-LOB and the BE06 corpora. The findings support the hypothesis that passivisation and relativisation are determinants of colloquialisation both in spoken and in written English.

Keywords: colloquialisation, passive, relative, spoken, written.