【内容】
This book is a quantitative and qualitative sociohistorical study focusing on the grammatical variation of the pronoun in nineteenth-century English novels. The nineteenth century is regarded as the period of the novel’s full arrival for its richness in publication. With a variety of perspectives—such as historical, morphological, phonological, stylistic, sociolinguistic, pragmatic and regional—the book reveals which linguistic factors are involved in the language usages of the characters in the novels as well as of the authors who created them. The book also considers how a prominent upsurge of normative grammar influenced the change of English language throughout the century.
本書は、19世紀イギリス小説をコーパスとし、英語代名詞の文法的ヴァリエーションにかかわる言語内外の要因を、巨視的・微視的に分析した歴史言語学の研究書である。小説の会話や語りにみられる代名詞の変異形は、どのように用いられ、そしてなぜ作家によって異なったのか。史的、社会言語学的、語用論的、地域的、文体的、統語的、形態的、音韻的などの様々な視点をとりいれ、19世紀から現代英語へと続く代名詞用法の変化の道筋をたどる。
【Contents】
Preface and acknowledgements
List of tables and figures
chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Aim and scope
1.2 Previous studies
1.3 Methodological framework
1.3.1 Corpus
1.3.2 Grammar books
1.3.3 Multifaceted approach
1.3.3.1 Sociolinguistic analysis
1.3.3.2 Stylistic analysis
1.3.3.3 Regional parameters
1.3.3.4 Outline of the study
chapter 2 Dialectal Variation of Personal Pronouns
2.1 Second person
2.1.1 Thou
2.1.1.1 Overview
2.1.1.2 Data
2.1.1.3 “Power” as a key to the use of THOU
2.1.1.4 “Emotion” which triggers THOU
2.1.1.5 Summary
2.1.2 Ye
2.1.2.1 Overview
2.1.2.2 Data
2.1.2.3 Complex behavior of ye
2.1.2.4 Distribution of two types of ye and how to tell the difference
2.1.2.5 Summary
2.2 Third person
2.2.1 Third person singular
2.2.1.1 Nonstandard forms for he
2.2.1.2 Nonstandard forms for she
2.2.1.3 Nonstandard forms for it
2.2.1.4 Summary
2.2.2 Third person plural ’em for them
2.2.2.1 Overview
2.2.2.2 Data
2.2.2.3 Sociolinguistic analysis
2.2.2.4 Syntactic and phonological analyses
2.2.2.5 Summary
2.3 Reflexive pronouns
2.3.1 Overview
2.3.2 Data and observation
2.3.2.1 The –sel’ type
2.3.2.2 The –seln/–sen type
2.3.2.3 The hisself type and others
2.3.3 Summary
chapter 3 Case Problems of Personal Pronouns
3.1 It is I vs. It is me
3.1.1 Overview
3.1.2 Data
3.1.3 Analysis
3.1.4 I! vs. Me!
3.1.4.1 Data
3.1.4.2 Analysis
3.1.5 Summary
3.2 Than I vs. than me
3.2.1 Overview
3.2.2 Younger than I vs. younger than me
3.2.3 Than myself
3.2.4 Summary
3.3 As I vs. as me
3.3.1 Overview
3.3.2 As tall as I vs. as tall as me
3.3.3 Such as he vs. such as him
3.3.4 As myself
3.3.5 Summary
3.4 But, except, save
3.4.1 Overview
3.4.2 Data and analysis
3.4.3 Summary
3.5 You and I vs. you and me
3.5.1 Overview
3.5.2 Nominative position
3.5.3 Between you and me
3.5.4 Summary
3.6 Overall Summary
chapter 4 The Nonstandard Usage of Demonstrative Pronouns
4.1 Them books for those books
4.1.1 Overview
4.1.2 Data and analysis
4.2 Them that for those that
4.2.1 Overview
4.2.2 Data and analysis
4.3 Summary
chapter 5 The Rivalry between Relative Pronoun Variants
5.1 Whom vs. who
5.1.1 Overview
5.1.2 Interrogative and relative pronouns
5.1.2.1 Interrogative whom/who
5.1.2.2 Relative whom/who
5.1.3 Summary
5.2 Of which vs. whose
5.2.1 Overview
5.2.2 Genitive whose and its alternative variants
5.2.3 Of which vs. whose for non-personal antecedents
5.2.3.1 Chronological and sociolinguistic analyses
5.2.3.2 Spoken and written
5.2.3.3 Types of antecedents
5.2.3.4 Syntactic factors
5.2.4 Summary
chapter 6 Concord with Indefinite Pronouns
6.1 Pronoun-verb concord
6.1.1 Overview
6.1.2 The everybody type
6.1.3 The every man type
6.1.4 Spoken and written
6.2 Pronominal co-reference
6.2.1 Overview
6.2.2 The everybody type
6.2.3 The every man type
6.2.4 Spoken and written
6.2.5 Sociolinguistic analysis
6.2.5.1 The everybody type
6.2.5.2 The every man type
6.3 Discrepancy in number
6.4 Summary
chapter 7 Conclusion
7.1 Linguistic factors involved in the choice of pronominal variants
7.2 Influence of prescriptive grammar
7.2.1 Archaic/dialectal use
7.2.2 Casual use
7.2.3 Solecism criticized by grammarians
7.3 How the grammatical change in pronouns proceeded in the th century
7.4 Further investigation
Masami Nakayama was born in Oita, Japan. She received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Tokyo. Masami is currently an adjunct lecturer in the University of Tokyo and Kanagawa University.
Main academic articles:
・“Multiple Negation in Nineteenth-Century English; As Seen in Victorian Novels.” Studies in Modern English 23.(2007)
・“Linguistic Rivalry between Three Forms of Negation: A Sociohistorical Study of English in Nineteenth-Century Novels.” Studies in English Literature: English Number 52.(2011)
・“The Complex Behavior of the Second Person Pronoun Ye in 19th-Century English Novels.” Studies in English Literature: English Number 55.(2014)