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10 novembre 2022
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- hal: hal-04062862
- doi: 10.1075/scl.105.01mik
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Olaf Mikkelsen et al., « Competing future constructions and the Complexity Principle: A contrastive outlook », HAL-SHS : linguistique, ID : 10.1075/scl.105.01mik
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This paper presents a contrastive study on the role of syntactic complexity in the choice between different future constructions in English and Norwegian. Previous work on the English future alternation (BE going to vs. will) has shown that going to is preferred in syntactically complex contexts. We replicate this result for English on the basis of data from the Spoken BNC 2014. In addition, we address the question of whether this account can be generalized to another language that shows a very similar alternation, namely Norwegian (skal/vil vs. kommer til å). We use data from the Norwegian Speech Corpus (NoTa) and the BigBrother corpus, showing that syntactic complexity correlates with the shorter form skal here. We take this as an indication that the observed syntactic distribution is actually a side-effect of semantic differences and suggest possible explanations for this.