âHer COLTISH energy notwithstandingâ: An examination of the adposition notwithstanding

David Minugh

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âHer COLTISH energy notwithstandingâ: An examination of the adposition notwithstanding

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004334267_013

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The formal adposition notwithstanding is unique in English, in that it can occur prepositionally or postpositionally, both patterns being of long standing. Using corpora of present-day English and newspaper CDs, a total of 1845 million words were examined, yielding 8964 instances of notwithstanding. The current distribution of notwithstanding exhibits almost exactly the same aggregate pre- and postpositional frequencies, but distinct differences are found in the different geographical varieties, with written American English being most willing to use the postpositional form. In its prepositional use, the governed NP can be quite long (some 15% of these instances contained an NP > 15 words), whereas the postpositional use is normally much shorter (85% of its instances contained an NP < 7 words). The postpositional use in particular appears to be most common in sentence-initial position.

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From the COLTâs mouth ... and others'

Language Corpora Studies. In honour of Anna-Brita StenstrÃ¶m

Series:Â Language and Computers, Volume: 40

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Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 01 Jan 2002

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