Adverbiální -ing věty v registru novinových zpráv: diachronní pohled

Lávička, Adam

The present diploma thesis deals with the "adverbial ing-clause network", comprising free adjuncts, absolute constructions, and adverbial verbal gerunds, as postulated by Fonteyn and Pol (2016). Taking a diachronic perspective, the study examines adverbial -ing clauses and their inherent features (i.e. augmentation, position, punctuation, co-reference, complexity, and semantic interpretation) in two manually compiled corpora of newspaper reports from The Guardian, seeking to unveil differences between the two corpora as regards the usage of -ing clauses that may have stemmed from the shift in medium over the 70-year time span. While the 'Old Corpus' features newspaper reports from 1953 in printed broadsheet format, the 'New Corpus' consists of news articles from 2023 in online format. Further, this thesis also aims to detect and elucidate trends in the usage of -ing clauses, as well as verify correlations between the inherent features of -ing clauses as proposed in previous research. The empirical analysis has uncovered a number of significant differences in the employment of -ing clauses between the two periods. The 'New Corpus' was observed to have 2.8 times higher incidence of -ing clauses, a fact that was argued to boil down to the shift in the medium and its accompanying structural changes of...

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