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Milky Posted 19 years ago
Linguistics Studies

The growth of preposition stranding

The growth of preposition stranding:

DECADE 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s

PER MIL 6.76 6.90 11.54 11.02 11.18 10.94 10.77 15.06 18.08

Interesting, yeah?
  

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Is this a general trend across all registers? Why do you think there is such a trend? /km

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Is this a general trend across all registers?

Why do you think there is such a trend?

/km
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KimmWhy do you think there is such a trend?
Because not allowing a sentence to end with a preposition is an artificial rule imposed by overly zealous grammarians and editors. Churchill's comment on not allowing a sentence to end with a preposaition is a classic: “This is the sort of ****** nonsense up with which I will not put.”
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Is this a general trend across all registers?
I'll answer my own question - didn't see milky's other posts. This is a trend in TIME magazine.

/km
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YankeeBecause not allowing a sentence to end with a preposition is an artificial rule
Do you think an originally artifical rule can become internalised?

Is grammaticality commonness?

/km
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Hi Kimm

Please note that I was referring to Winston Churchill. Emotion: wink

Perhaps the fact he and his comment are very well
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I guessed you weren't talking about the [url="http://www.churchill.com/"]Churchill Insurance company[/url]!

/km
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I didn't understand the topic at first. But after checking on the net, I now know about what you are talking. Emotion: smile
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Kimm
Is this a general trend across all registers?
I'll answer my own question - didn't see milky's other posts. This is a trend in TIME magazine.

/km
Are you implying that it would not be the same in other registers?
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This is the spread across registers in BE of the past 40 years. It doesn't show growth, only spread:



REGISTER


SPOKEN


FICTION


NEWS


ACADEMIC


NONFIC MISC
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