Maria Edgeworth’s choice of auxiliary verb in perfect tenses

ABSTRACT: The present study concentrates on Maria Edgeworth’s use of auxiliary verbs (have or be) in combination with the participle gone in perfect tenses and the possible reasons for the choice of one or the other. A corpus containing most of her novels and moral tales was compiled and all the exa...

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Autor: Calvo Cortés, Nuria
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
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spelling Maria Edgeworth’s choice of auxiliary verb in perfect tensesCalvo Cortés, Nuria811.111821.11181Late Modern EnglishPerfect tensesChoice of auxiliaryMotion situationsManipulationFilología inglesa57 Lingüística5701.07 Lengua y Literatura6202 Teoría, Análisis y Crítica LiterariasABSTRACT: The present study concentrates on Maria Edgeworth’s use of auxiliary verbs (have or be) in combination with the participle gone in perfect tenses and the possible reasons for the choice of one or the other. A corpus containing most of her novels and moral tales was compiled and all the examples in which gone appeared were extracted and later analysed manually. The results show a clear preference for be, even in her later works, dating from when have was already well-established in the language as the auxiliary verb for perfect tenses. As for the reasons, while Maria Edgeworth was thought to have been influenced by the Irish English variety in her choice, a comparison between her use of auxiliaries in the narrative sections of her works and in the voice of the characters might indicate a possible manipulation by editors or an intention to show differences in speech. Similarly, it is also likely that some of the components of motion situations may have motivated her choices.Jan Kochanowski University PressUniversidad Complutense de Madrid20202020-01-0120202020-01-01journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/132413reponame:Docta Complutenseinstname:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/1324132026-06-02T12:44:21Z
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title Maria Edgeworth’s choice of auxiliary verb in perfect tenses
spellingShingle Maria Edgeworth’s choice of auxiliary verb in perfect tenses
Calvo Cortés, Nuria
811.111
821.111
81
Late Modern English
Perfect tenses
Choice of auxiliary
Motion situations
Manipulation
Filología inglesa
57 Lingüística
5701.07 Lengua y Literatura
6202 Teoría, Análisis y Crítica Literarias
title_short Maria Edgeworth’s choice of auxiliary verb in perfect tenses
title_full Maria Edgeworth’s choice of auxiliary verb in perfect tenses
title_fullStr Maria Edgeworth’s choice of auxiliary verb in perfect tenses
title_full_unstemmed Maria Edgeworth’s choice of auxiliary verb in perfect tenses
title_sort Maria Edgeworth’s choice of auxiliary verb in perfect tenses
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Calvo Cortés, Nuria
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821.111
81
Late Modern English
Perfect tenses
Choice of auxiliary
Motion situations
Manipulation
Filología inglesa
57 Lingüística
5701.07 Lengua y Literatura
6202 Teoría, Análisis y Crítica Literarias
topic 811.111
821.111
81
Late Modern English
Perfect tenses
Choice of auxiliary
Motion situations
Manipulation
Filología inglesa
57 Lingüística
5701.07 Lengua y Literatura
6202 Teoría, Análisis y Crítica Literarias
description ABSTRACT: The present study concentrates on Maria Edgeworth’s use of auxiliary verbs (have or be) in combination with the participle gone in perfect tenses and the possible reasons for the choice of one or the other. A corpus containing most of her novels and moral tales was compiled and all the examples in which gone appeared were extracted and later analysed manually. The results show a clear preference for be, even in her later works, dating from when have was already well-established in the language as the auxiliary verb for perfect tenses. As for the reasons, while Maria Edgeworth was thought to have been influenced by the Irish English variety in her choice, a comparison between her use of auxiliaries in the narrative sections of her works and in the voice of the characters might indicate a possible manipulation by editors or an intention to show differences in speech. Similarly, it is also likely that some of the components of motion situations may have motivated her choices.
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