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Unstable Statives -- An Observational Study: How British Popular Culture Reveals What Is Happening to a Specific Verb Class, and the Possible Reasons for This Development
| Title: | Unstable Statives -- An Observational Study: How British Popular Culture Reveals What Is Happening to a Specific Verb Class, and the Possible Reasons for This Development |
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| Authors: | John E. Booth |
| Source: | rEFLections. 2024 31(1):310-327. |
| Abstract: | That a certain class of verb commonly known as 'statives' is undergoing change in terms of the way in which certain verbs of this type are being used in everyday speech is nothing new to the field of linguistics. Much has been written about it, and the author of this paper alone has been preoccupied with the subject for many years now. However, notwithstanding that this change has been fairly widely documented for well over half a century, the present paper has been motivated by the desire to capture the root cause of this change in writing and to establish the linguistic conditions that have enabled it to occur. This is not so much a reductionist venture, negatively conceived, as a quest to determine the primary factors involved in what can seem at times to be a most peculiar phenomenon. The method employed to delimit these causal factors proceeds by a process of elimination, while the provision of evidence adopts the traditional, tried-and-tested method of 'observation and collection'. The stative-specific research papers that examine the current variation constituting the focus of this paper are all from the present century. |
| Language: | English |
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| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 18 |
| Publication Date: | 2024 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Evaluative |
| Descriptors: | Verbs, Language Usage, Popular Culture, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), English, Form Classes (Languages), Linguistics, Language Variation, Motivation, Speech Communication, Second Language Learning, Native Language, Native Speakers |
| Geographic Terms: | United Kingdom (England) |
| ISSN: | 1513-5934 2651-1479 |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Entry Date: | 2024 |
| Accession Number: | EJ1426771 |
| ISSN: | 1513-59342651-1479 |
| Database: | ERIC |
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