A Corpus-based Study on the Correspondence Between Cross-layer Prepositional Objective Phrases and Registers
There is a correspondence among register,spatio-temporality,and syntactic position.The different distributions of oral prepositions an and chule and formal prepositions anzhao and genju in news,fictions,and academic journal papers and their different syntactic positions confirm this view.It was found that an tended to appear in fiction and news and in a low syntactic po-sition,chule tended to appear in fictions and in a low syntactic position,anzhao tends to appear in news and also in a low syntactic position,and that genju tends to appear in academic journal papers and in a high syntactic position.