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If enclitics were to be treated simply as the colloquial analogues of their full forms and the viable alternative in spoken-like discourse, more directed trends would be expected such that the enclitics' increasing degree of conventionalization would lead to relatively more ad-hoc formations and thus higher degrees of potential productivity; the reverse should hold for the full forms. Interestingly, throughout the 20th century, the full forms constantly outperform the enclitics in their potential for more variability in the v slot, which indicates that both [[ subj I 'd i ] v ] and [[ subj I 'll i ] v ] remain more restrictive regarding the expectations the different subj + enclitic combinations evoke about the range of verbs that can follow. Keywords: constructional change; modal enclitics; patterns of associations; schema entrenchment and conventionalization EN constructional change modal enclitics patterns of associations schema entrenchment and conventionalization 221 250 30 02/14/22 20220201 NES 220201 1 Introduction Contractions like I let's i ( I let us i ) or I we've i ( I we have i ) are pervasive in language use and typically result from a string's increase in usage frequency ([19]; [22]; [30]; [55], [57]). Put differently, the use of enclitics relative to their full forms is not merely contingent on contextual cues about register variation, but also their respective co-occurrence patterns (i.e., the elements with which the enclitics occur in a sequence) and paradigmatic range (i.e., the number of elements in the variable slots of enclitic patterns). [Extracted from the article] |
