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Russian Journal of Linguistics Вестник РУДН. Серия: ЛИНГВИСТИКА
2018 Vol. 22 No. 3 560—580
http://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics
DOI: 10.22363/2312-9182-2018-22-3-560-580
A Corpus Investigation of English Cognition Verbs and their Effect on the Incipient Epistemization of Physical Activity Verbs
Sally Rice1 and John Newman1,2
'University of Alberta
116 St. and 85 Ave., Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2R3
2Monash University, Australia
Abstract
In the spirit of NSM accounts that attempt to build up a language's full expressivity from a small set of lexical primitives, we have investigated the usage in English of basic verbs of ideation (think, know) and physical activity (strike, hit, go, run) as they take on new epistemic meanings and functions, all the while calcifying in their inflectional range. It is well known that certain verbs of cognition in English such as remember, forget, and think are grammaticalizing into pragmatic particles of epistemic stance and, consequently, 1st person singular (lsg) forms account for the majority of usages. Likewise, we have carried out systematic queries and hand-tagging of corpus returns and have found that many verbs and phrasal expressions, ideational or not, seem to be associated with rather narrow collocational patterning, argument structure, and inflectional marking in almost idiom-like and constructional fashion. Moreover, we find that expressions associated with lsg and 2nd person "cognizers" are, to a large extent, in complementary distribution, giving rise to fairly strong semantic differences in how I and you "ideate". In this study, we demonstrate the extent of inflectional and collocational specificity for verbs of cognition and physical activity and discuss implications this lexico-syntactic idiosyncracy has for cognitive linguistics.
Keywords: cognition, corpus methods, collocation, lexico-syntax, inflectional categories, epistemization
Корпусное исследование английских глаголов мышления и их влияния на начальную эпистемизацию глаголов физического действия
Сэлли Райс1 и Джон Ньюман12
'Университет Альберты, Канада 116 St. and 85 Ave., Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2R3
2Университет Монаш, Австралия
Аннотация
С позиций подхода ЕСМ, который стремится представить всю экспрессивность языка с помощью небольшого набора лексических примитивов, мы исследовали употребление английских базовых глаголов мышления (think, know) и глаголов физического действия (strike, hit, go, run), которые принимают новые эпистемические значения и функции. Хорошо известно, что определенные глаголы мышления в английском языке, такие как remember, forget, think, могут использоваться
в роли прагматических частиц эпистемического содержания и, как следствие этого, форма 1 лица единственного числа является наиболее употребимой. В результате проведения систематических исследований ручной аннотации корпуса мы обнаружили, что для многих глаголов, как и фразовых выражений, характерна достаточно узкая сочетаемость, аргументативная структура и некоторые черты идиоматичности. Более того, нами обнаружено, что в выражениях, где глаголы мышления употребляются с первым и вторым лицом, в значительной степени в дополнительной дистрибуции, наблюдаются достаточно сильные семантические различия. В данной работе мы демонстрируем специфичность коллокаций глаголов мышления и глаголов физического действия и обсуждаем значение лексико-синтаксической идиосинкразии для когнитивной лингвистики.
Ключевые слова: мышление, корпусные методы, коллокация, лексико-синтаксический анализ, инфлекционные категории, эпистемизация
1. INTRODUCTION
In the present study, we describe a number of relatively low-level patterns associated with basic verbs of ideation (think, know), along with other peculiar inflectional patterns in a miscellany of constructions1. In the case of the ideation verbs, it is the specific combination of subject pronouns and these verbs that will be our focus. Our interest lies in identifying recurring patterns of usage and, where possible, seeking motivation for such patterns in human experiential realities. This approach to the study of language, grounding language phenomena in broader cognitive realities, is rightly called a cognitive linguistic approach (see Dancygier 2017a for an introduction to the field of cognitive linguistics as currently practised and Dancygier 2017b for contemporary overviews of subfields). Our adoption of a corpus-based methodology to investigate these patterns reflects, too, a widely held view within cognitive linguistics that a usage-based approach is a tool of critical importance. Indeed Dancygier (2017a: 2) remarks that "actual usage is at the core of cognitive linguistics".
Our decision to focus on the pair {think, know} is based on a number of considerations: the relatively high frequency of such verbs in ordinary discourse; the closeness of each member of the pair to the other semantically, creating potentially interesting contrasts in the details of usage; the tendency for each of these verbs to become discourse markers. These considerations suggest that these two verbs have affinities with each other that can be profitably studied at a finer-grained level than has been done to date, giving insight into why they each take different paths in terms of semantic shift and why they manifest highly skewed and individualized agreement patterns.
More specifically, the aims of this study are (i) to identify statistically significant combinations of subject/object pronouns with select English verbal expressions using corpus-based methodologies; (ii) to identify preferences for the use of 1st person in other miscellaneous constructions, prompted by our findings from (i); and (iii) to reflect on the larger significance of our findings for the field of cognitive linguistics. We begin with some relevant background research on co-occurrence patterns of number/person and verb categories (§2). We then introduce the corpus and the statistical methods used in the study (§3), present the findings (§4), and discuss the larger significance of the findings for cognitive linguistics (§5).
1 We use small caps (e.g. think) for any lemma (and for referring to lemma equivalents across languages) and italics (e.g. think, thinks, thought) for all inflected forms.
2. BACKGROUND
The co-occurrence patterns of pronouns with certain verbs have already received attention in the linguistics literature as part of the typological interest in the Hale-Silver-stein person hierarchy of 1st > 2nd > 3rd (Hale 1972, Silverstein 1976), but there has been rather less interest in patterns occurring with specific inflected forms of verbs. For English, statements about co-occurring argument types (whether it is the semantics of the arguments or how hierarchies of person or animacy play out) are usually made at the lemma level.
In the context of corpus linguistic research, Sinclair (1991:8) suggested that inflectional differences may be more important in terms of their patterning than is commonly assumed, taking the inflected word form (rather than a lemma) to be the default unit of study: "There is a good case for arguing that each distinct form is potentially a unique lexical unit, and that forms should only be conflated into lemmas when their environments show a certain amount and type of similarity." For example, in Sinclair's illustration of this approach, adjectival forms like bloody and bloodiest are kept apart in a word count of a corpus, as are is and are. Sinclair's position has been recently restated by Knowles & Don (2004: 71): "...it has become apparent that individual members of the lemma can behave independently and develop their own meanings and collocations"2. Newman & Rice's (2006: 31) notion of an "inflectional island" is very much in the same vein as Knowles and Don's remarks, referring to syntactic/semantic properties that tend to inhere in individual inflections of a verb, rather than extending across all inflected forms of the lemma. In that paper, Newman and Rice found distinctive and intriguing patterns of pro subjects with transitive and intransitive uses of eat and drink verbs in spoken and written registers.
Recent research into patterning at the inflectional level has yielded promising results (cf. studies exploring quite specific lexical items such as Thompson & Mulac 1991, Aijmer 1997, Karkkainnen 2003, and Van Bogaert 2011 on I think; Tao 2001, 2003 on remember and forget). Many of these studies focus on the grammaticalization of what have been termed complement-taking mental predicates into complement-less pragmatic markers. Unlike our study here, the majority of these previous analyses have not been corpus-based, although they have appealed to familiar corpus notions such as high frequency and increased collocational fixedness that do have a bearing on grammatical entrenchment or what Schoonjanns (2012) has called "particulization". He uses this concept in the context of the German ideational verb glauben 'think/believe', which has both lost its 1sg pronoun, ich, and its TAM (tense-aspect-mode) inflection and emerged as a sentence-medial modal particle, glaub, with the evidential force of 'maybe' or 'perhaps'. While the present study is consonant with much of that prior grammaticaliza-tion research, our purpose is to examine why such grammaticalization came about in the first place through heavily skewed inflectional preferences (for 1sg.pres and 2.pres, respectively) affecting the major ideational verbs. Our aim is not to relitigate the case for the grammaticalization of these verbs into pragmatic markers, but to show how
2 See also the references to earlier studies on person and number preferences with verbs in Scheibman (2001: 61—63, 2002: 1—87).
first-person singular (I) and second-person (you) ideation are associated with different semantic values which have had huge consequences for the incipient epistemization of non-ideational verbs. Not only do different types of predicates enter into the ideational arena, but they tend towards specific inflectional and collocational preferences, as we will show through a series of corpus searches and analyses. In short, the ways that "I ideate" as opposed to "you ideate" are strongly linked to connotations of I think and you know in the first place. These two epistemic constructions are different and differentially draw non-epistemic verbs and constructions into their respective orbits or, as we describe in §5, their respective "attractor basins" (in the sense of Spivey 2008).
Another uniquely valuable contribution to our understanding of inflectional level patterning in English is Scheibman's (2001) discussion of subject types, sub-categorized in terms of person and number, with different classes of verbs. She throws light on the notion of "subjectivity", understood as how speakers and writers use linguistic devices to express their own individual perceptions, feelings, and opinions. As in our present study, Scheibman's (2001) research focuses on the preference for certain person and number choices (1st person singular, 2nd person singular, etc.) as grammatical subjects of verb types and her verb classes include cognition (know, think, remember, figure out, etc) verbs. While her study of these larger classes (alongside other broad categories) is helpful, especially when it comes to comparing results across lexical fields, we have chosen to explore linguistic patterning at a more fine-grained level, reporting on patterns involving selected individual verbs and expressions, i.e., think vs. know, go vs. run through one's mind, etc.
It is appropriate to mention, too, relevant research in Natural Semantic Metatheory (NSM; cf. Wierzbicka 1996, Goddard 1997, Goddard & Wierzbicka 2014). While NSM does not employ the highly quantitative methods of some of the works mentioned above, it succeeds in providing insightful semantic analyses building upon a set of semantic primitives. It is not a coincidence that the verbs we have chosen to focus on are among the six mental predicates recognized in later versions of the inventory of semantic primitives in NSM, namely think, know, want, feel, see, hear (using small caps here to denote these primitives, following the practice in NSM). NSM shares the broader cognitive linguistic interest in the role of ordinary bodily realities and experiences in motivating and shaping aspects of language behavior and it is not surprising that our own approach has brought us to a set of verbs that play a key role in NSM. The discussion of I think and miscellaneous other epistemic phrases of English in Wierzbicka (2006: Chapter 7) shows a further overlap between NSM and our own focus in this study. It is of interest to note that when they occur in definitions of words, these mental predicates in NSM may sometimes appear specifically with the 1sg pronoun. So, for example, the 1sg pronoun is required as the subject of want in the sequence of statements "many good things are happening to me now as I want; I can do many things now as I want; this is good" as part of the explication of He was happy (Goddard and Wierzbicka 2014: 103). In other publications, too, Wierzbicka has turned attention to the different semantic content associated with different choices of number/person subjects in expressions, e.g. 1sg and 3pl (e.g. people) subject frames of to have a sense that (Wierzbicka 2010: 169—176).
3. METHODOLOGY
Throughout this study, we rely upon the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA, https://corpus.byu.edu/coca/) for our English usage data. COCA is a corpus of contemporary American English (Davies 2008-) and has been tagged using the CLAWS 7 tagset. It is available to users via a web interface, which is how it was accessed for this study. The corpus consists of texts dating from 1990—2017 and is being added to each year (thus, it is a "monitor corpus"). We see spoken language as being particularly relevant in the present study, since it is in spoken language that one might expect to see a greater representation of emergent constructions. Our corpus searches will therefore be restricted to the spoken component of COCA or what we will call COCAsp. COCAsp consists of transcripts of unscripted conversation from more than 150 different TV and radio programs, making up over 118 million words at the time of writing (2018). The programs on which COCAsp is based are largely concerned with American news and current affairs, along with some idiosyncratic interview-style programs. As such, the language of COCAsp may be called naturalistic for these contexts because it is interactional, but it is not necessarily natural as far as ordinary, everyday conversation is concerned.
Regardless of grammatical case, we will refer to the six pronoun forms under investigation (1sg, 2, 3sgM, 3sgF, 1pl, 3pl) simply as the pronouns (pro) without further qualification. Both upper-case and lower-case forms of the pronouns will be included in frequency counts. The decision to exclude it relates to specific interest in verbs of sentience occurring with animate, especially human, participants, rather than with inanimate. Sequences such as [pro + verb] will be used as the basic proxy pattern for retrieving personal subject pronouns occurring with the verb forms. A refinement of this search pattern may be used to find the [subject pro + present tense verb] sequences in declarative structures such as such She knows a lot and What you know about dinosaurs is amazing, but not Does he know anything about dinosaurs? While interrogative structures would be a viable and interesting extension of the present study, they will not be included here. In terms of "precision" (i.e., how well our returns match subject and verb combinations), our proxy search for pro as the subject of a verb is high, attributable in part to the availability of the CLAWS 7 part of speech tags on the verbs, distinguishing present tense forms (vv0, vvz) from infinitival forms (vvi). The "recall" (i.e., the extent to which our returns include all the relevant subject-verb combinations), on the other hand, is not 100%. Subjects of verbs are, of course, not restricted to the position immediately to the left of the verb, even in declarative structures; rather, they can appear some distance to the left. With pronominal subjects, there is less likelihood of intervening relative clauses than with nouns (as in He who thinks before acting is wiser), but certainly adverbials can easily intervene (as in I always think of her). Recall is clearly not ideal, but, importantly, we use the same kind of search pattern in each case and the comparison across the search results is based on the methodological decision to use the same position immediately to the left of the verb in most searches. (We make an exception in the case of certain adverbs like suddenly, discussed below in §4.2.2.)
While frequency of occurrence of patterns lies at the heart of this study, we will make use of a more sophisticated (but easily understood) statistical measure in reporting on the verbs that are the main focus, i.e., the epistemic verbs, for which we have sufficient frequencies to test statistically. The statistical measure involves a calculation of standardized residuals associated with a chisquare statistic, indicating the extent to which particular pronouns occurring as the subject/object of a verb are overused or underused. In considering the patterning of pro as the subject of a verb, the initial step is to determine the frequencies of the combination [pro + present tense of any verb] in COCAsp3. These frequencies may be called the baseline frequencies and are shown in Table 1. From these frequencies, we can see the proportions of I, you, (s)he, etc. in the whole corpus functioning as the subject of a verb in the present tense, expressed as percentages in Table 1.
Table 1
Baseline frequencies and percentages of occurrence of subject pronouns of all lexical verbs (base or present-tense forms) in COCAsp
CLAWS Tag PROsubj Raw Frequency Row Total / Column Total as Percentage Rank Order
[vv0] I 718,184 39% 1
[vv0] you 599,585 33% 2
[vvz] (s)he 145,014 8% 5
[vv0] we 207,887 11% 3
[vv0] they 163,885 9% 4
Total 1,834,555 100%
The frequencies of the pronouns occurring with the present tense of any verb in COCAsp are "expected" to be in the same proportions as the overall proportions in Table 1 (or, more weakly, to share the same overall rank order). That is, we start with the assumption that the proportion of some phenomenon in a sub-part of the population will be identical to that found in the whole population (the "null hypothesis", cf. Gries 2013b: 316—319) and proceed to show how likely this assumption is given the discrepancies between the observed and expected frequencies of the skewed agreement phenomenon we are investigating. Once the expected frequencies have been calculated, it is possible to compare them with the observed frequencies and evaluate the statistical significance of the difference between them, as in a chisquare test. The standardized residuals represent a standardized value of the difference between the observed and expected frequencies for each combination of pronoun and verb implemented in R (R Development Core Team 2014), obtained by calculating the differences between observed and expected frequencies, divided by the square root of the expected frequency (Agresti 2007: 38—39). Standardized residuals with values greater than +2 or less than
3 By "any verb", we mean any "lexical verb". This category excludes forms of do, have, be, all of which have special properties in their auxiliary verb use. The frequencies in Table 1 were obtained by a series of searches using the strings "I.[pp*] [vv0]", "you.[pp*] [vv0]", "she.[pp*] [vvz]", "he.[pp*] [vvz]" etc., with the "Chart" option selected to display total frequencies for each genre ("Section") in COCA. All corpus findings were the result of searches in COCA during February 2018.
-2 indicate statistically significant overuse or underuse in those cells. It is also helpful to display the overuse and underuse of pronouns with verb forms graphically, as in an association plot (cf. Gries 2013a: 187—188), and we will make use of these plots in the course of our exposition4.
4. PRONOUNS + VERB PREFERENCES
4.1. The ideational verbs, think and know
We begin our discussion with the distinct frequency profiles of inflected forms of think and know in spoken English (here, in their simple present tense forms) with different agreement patterns as measured by their co-occurrence with the different subject personal pronouns. As we will argue in §5, these distributional differences have had a concomitant effect on the recruitment of non-ideational predicates and constructions to take on epistemic meanings in the language. We queried COCAsp for all subject pronouns (except it) occurring with base or present-tense forms of think and know, using the POS (part of speech) tags, vv0, vvz, and compared those frequencies with all other lexical verbs in the spoken sub-corpus occurring with the same set of pronouns. Table 2a gives the raw (observed) frequencies for think(s) with a pronominal subject while Table 2b gives the standardized residuals when compared with the raw frequencies for all other verbs.
Table 2
(a) Observed frequencies for think [pro + think.vvO | vvz] compared to frequencies of all other lexical verbs (base or 3sg present-tense forms) in the spoken subcorpus of COCA. (b) Standardized residuals for think frequencies compared to frequencies of all other lexical verbs
(a) I you (s)he we they
THINK 254,252 15,855 828 6,767 5,996
other 463,932 583,730 144,186 201,120 157,889
Total 718,184 599,585 145,014 207,887 163,885
(b) I you (s)he we they
THINK 599.0677 -334.6267 -163.4517 -163.5032 -138.5127
other -599.0677 334.6267 163.4517 163.5032 138.5127
Figure 1 shows the association plot for the distribution of pro x think5. For present purposes, it is the relative height of the boxes, reflecting the values of the standardized residuals, that is most relevant. The black rectangles in Figure 1 show the overuse of subject pronouns with present-tense forms of verbs in a more immediate and more striking way than by inspecting numerical tables. 1sg, while hugely overrepresented with think, is greatly underrepresented across the rest of the verbal lexicon, on average.
4 We used the functions chisq.test()$std for the standardized residuals and assocplot() to create the association plots in the base package of R (R Development Core Team, 2018).
5 In the association plots shown here, black rectangles above a dashed line correspond to cases where the observed frequency is greater than the expected frequency; white rectangles below a dashed line correspond to cases where the observed frequency is less than the expected frequency. The area of a box in such plots is proportional to the difference in observed and expected frequencies; the width of the rectangle is proportional to the square root of the expected frequency; the height of the rectangle is proportional to the standardized residual.
Figure 1. Association plot of pro x THINK compared to other verbs in COCAsp
The pro x think distributions compared to pro x other verbs distributions for think are but half of the story. When we look at the distributional frequencies for know, we start to get a picture of the differential behaviour and distinct epistemizational attraction to concepts of first person singular ideation versus second person ideation. Table 3 gives the raw (observed) frequencies for know(s) with a pronominal subject as well as the standardized residuals when compared with the raw frequencies for all other verbs. Figure 2 shows the association plot corresponding to the distribution of pronouns given in Table 3. Comparing Figures 1 and 2, we see how know is the converse of think.
Table 3
(a) Observed frequencies for know [pro + know.vv01 vvz] compared to frequencies of all other lexical verbs (base or present-tense forms) in COCA^. (b) Standardized residuals for know frequencies compared to frequencies of all other lexical verbs
(a) I you (s)he we they
KNOW 42,219 320,202 16,809 5,891 2,815
other 675,965 279,383 128,205 201,996 161,070
Total 718,184 599,585 145,014 207,887 163,885
(b) I you (s)he we they
KNOW -406.1812 745.5418 -92.84945 -217.1432 -201.8366
other 406.1812 -745.5418 92.84945 217.1432 201.8366
Figure 2. Association plot of pro x KNOW compared to other verbs in COCAsp
Our main purpose in this section is to establish, statistically, the attraction that think and know have for particular inflectional forms of the subject pronouns, especially 1sg and 2 person subjects, rather than explore the particular constructions in which these combinations occur. The syntactic, semantic, and pragmatics of the individual uses of these verbs is beyond the scope of the present study. Even so, it is of interest to note the co-occurrence, indeed the juxtaposition, of I think and you know in examples such as (1a-b). In these examples, illustrating the two possible orders I think + you know and you know +1 think, we see think used with a clause complement while you know appears as a complement-less pragmatic marker (cf. §2).
(1) a. I think, you know, everything changes in politics, but I've, I've... (SPOK: NBC_MeetPress, 2007) b. You know, I think we will see that eventually. (SPOK: NPR_ATCW, 2006)
Although we are relying on the standardized residuals to establish the statistical significance of the overrepresentation of I think and you know in the corpus, it is still instructive to consider some relevant raw frequencies related to the use of subject pronouns and lexical verbs in the present tense in the corpus. Table 4 lists the 20 most frequent base forms ([vv0]) occurring immediately to the right of I and you, respectively. In this table, we can readily see the overall preference for verbs of cognition (think, mean, know, want, guess, remember, understand, etc.) in this construction with I. think is not just the top-ranked verb in the first column of this table, it enjoys nearly two and a half times the frequency of the second-ranked verb, mean (707,880 vs. 284,116). The fourth column lists the results for the 20 most frequent base forms co-occurring with you. One sees in these results a greater variation in the semantics than with the I-verbs, with non-cognition verbs such as go, look, say, talk, come, find, etc. making a conspicuous appearance in the list. Here, know is far and away the most
frequent verb (320,202), well ahead (at 12 times the frequency!) of the second-ranked verb, want (26,762). In other words, the particular preferences for I think and you know that we see in Figures 1 and 2 do not tell the whole story about the attraction of these verbs to 1sg and 2nd person subjects, respectively; these preferences are evident in a striking way even when all present tense verbs are considered. Nevertheless, as the two most frequent [pro-verb.pres] bigrams in COCAsp, we have to acknowledge that I think and you know are, individually, huge constructional magnets for other expressions. It is incumbent, then, that we come to understand the particular semantic associations and connotations that imbue I think and you know since we find equally skewed distributions (by subject, object, or possessive pronoun agreement) with non-ideational expressions that have come to have epistemic force in the language, even though they were originally verbs of perception or physical action. Happily, corpus analysis can help us do this.
Table 4
The 20 most frequent sequences of I vs. you, respectively, with present tense lexical verbs (queried as [vv0]) in COCAsp
1sg + verb.pres frequency rank 2 + verb.pres frequency rank
I think 707,880 1 you know 320,202 1
I mean 284,116 2 you want 26,762 2
I know 201,758 3 you get 17,431 3
I want 167,388 4 you see 16,810 4
I guess 82,616 5 you think 15,855 5
I love 68,174 6 you look 15,836 6
I believe 67,618 7 you go 14,708 7
I feel 62,274 8 you say 13,350 8
I like 54,782 9 you need 10,109 9
I see 54,498 10 you take 4,743 10
I say 53,060 11 you talk 4,631 11
I hope 49,798 12 you put 4,499 12
I remember 44,954 13 you hear 4,264 13
I get 41,936 14 you like 3,818 14
I need 39,570 15 you feel 3,808 15
I understand 30,592 16 you make 3,449 16
I wish 27,346 17 you mean 3,380 17
I go 23,902 18 you start 2,812 18
I look 23,670 19 you come 2,770 19
I suppose 22,622 20 you find 2,199 20
4.2. Miscellaneous activity verbs and constructions
Having established (i) that the basic verbs think and know have highly skewed inflectional profiles and (ii) that I think and you know are uniquely privileged uses of think and know and wildly dominant inflectionally speaking, we now turn to a range of verbal constructions that, when taken literally, have nothing to do with ideation, but which clearly have undergone epistemization processes in the language. That is, certain verbal constructions are turning into expressions about ideation or knowledge validation and they are turning up with highly skewed inflectional profiles of their own.
While we find these expressions interesting as cognitive linguists because they have taken on meanings beyond the literal and the physical, they prove to be especially fascinating to us as corpus linguists because they display similar inflectional skewing as we find with the two basic cognition verbs explored in §4.1. Moreover, through an examination of their frequencies by agreement and TAM, we can gain insight into how first person singular ideation is construed in English, compared to ideation affecting second persons. If language change or semantic shift is driven in part by analogy, then a better understanding of the different semantic associations affecting verbal expressions by person helps us make the larger point advocated by Sinclair and others that the inflected lexical form is the proper starting point for lexico-syntactic analysis, not the idealized lemmatized form. In this section, because the frequency counts are relatively low, we will only report raw frequency with no further statistical analysis. It is worth noting that the cognizer in the following constructions are not encoded as the subject of the verb, but as a down-stream thematic participant, construed as a patient or as the object of a preposition. The subject is generally a pleonastic, it, or the headless relative pronoun, what.
4.2.1. It/What strike/hit PRO
The two physical verbs that have re-lexicalized or, actually, constructionalized into verbs of ideation the most are strike and hit. Indeed, the participial adjective, striking, collocates most frequently with nouns that are associated with epistemic realization or discernment, such as thing, resemblance, contrast, example, difference, and similarity. With strike and hit, the cognizer presents as the direct object, as in it struck me or what hit him or as the prepositional object with progressive forms of strike, as in it was striking to me; therefore, our COCAsp searches involved variants of these search strings: [whati [strikejhit] (p*)] or [what [be] striking (to) (p*)]. Tables 5 and 6 summarize the returns for strike and hit, respectively, by TAM and construction (cognizer is a pronominal DO or X). Corpus examples follow in (2) and (3).
Table 5
Observed frequencies for [what/it strike (to) pro] in COCAsp.
[*All 44 instances of what struck you are questions, with the what functioning as a bona fide question word, as opposed to the function of what to introduce a pseudo-cleft as in (2a).]
strike me you him her us them Row Total
what strikes PRO 111 26 137
what struck PRO 144 44* 1 1 4 194
what's striking PRO 1 1
what is striking to PRO 3 3
what was striking to PRO 6 6
it strikes PRO 191 3 2 3 199
it struck PRO 105 3 2 2 6 3 121
it is striking to PRO 3 3
it was striking to PRO 2 2
Column Total 566 76 5 3 13 3 666
Column Total/Row Total 85% 11% < 1% < 1/2% 2% < /2% 100%
as Percentage
(2) a. He can be personable, but he also can be very serious. Now what is striking to me is that he still seems removed from who he's working for. I mean, he was clearly referencing Harvey Weinstein in respect for women, or that would be the best guess (SPOK: CNN_Anderson Cooper, 2017).
b. It's odd that he—well, it strikes me as a little bit odd that he continually talks about his struggle to get there, the reasons behind it, struggle, it's well established, it's done. I have a feeling he should stop talking like that if there's any possibility that he's going to get in this thing... (SPOK: CBS_FaceTheNation, 2015).
c. Before this kind of gradual, almost indistinguishable, process of- of corruption. You know, it struck me again, in- in- in going back through it, how much it really is a parable of the dark side of the moon of the democratic proposition... (SPOK: NPR_Weekend, 1996).
Table 6
Observed frequencies for [what/it hit pro] in COCAsp. Note the pseudo-cleft uses of what in (3a-b). The relatively high values for it hit/hits you shouldn't be taken at face value.
Nearly all of them are used generically or refer back to the 1sg speaker, as in (3d)
hit me you him her us them Row Total
what hits PRO 2 1 1 4
what hit PRO 9 7 12 1 3 8 40
what's hitting PRO 1 1
it hits PRO 13 20 3 1 4 41
it hit PRO 79 16 4 6 4 2 111
it's hitting PRO 1 2 1 1 5
it is hitting PRO 1 1
Column Total 105 44 21 7 9 17 203
Column Total / Row Total as Percentage 52% 22% 10% 3.5% 4.5% 8% 100%
(3) a. Well, I think that-what hits me about this ethics stuff, Robert, is that I'm surprised that the Democrats don't see an opening with campaign finance reform. (SPOK: NPR_ATC, 1995)
b. One of the lawyers for detainees approached me and said, I want my clients' art to be exhibited. I said, what do you mean? There's art made at Guantanamo. What hit me at first was how normal they seem. Shouldn't their drawings be so much more angry? (SPOK: PBS_Newshour, 2017)
c. Every once in a while it hits me. I'll be driving along or whatever, just by myself, and start to think about it, and it was really close. I mean any — a foot either way, an inch either way, it would have been over for me. (SPOK: ABC_Primetime, 1994)
d. You know, after the firefight's over and the adrenaline rush is over and you started—you know, you're all soaking wet and just feel like your legs won't hold you, you know, it hits you. I just took a life. (SPOK: Dateline_NBC, 2008)
It is apparent from the counts, the examples, and the brief commentary in this section that strike and hit, when used to convey mental (not physical) force, have an overwhelming preference for 1sg objects construed as the target of sudden realization. More than three-quarters of the returns in COCAsp for this family of [what/it strike/hit PRO] constructions are about 1sg ideation. Obviously, strike and hit bring many
semantic associations from the physical world when used figuratively. They both suggest punctual, telic, and dynamic action, which, we argue, carries over into how 1sg ideation is construed more generally. We return to this point in §5.
4.2.2. It dawn on PRO
For it to dawn on someone is a particularly nice figurative expression in English to describe epistemic realization. The various TAM-inflected forms of what is otherwise a concrete verb, dawn, describing the path of the sun and the return of daylight (widely associated with consciousness and understanding), show an overwhelming preference for 1sg prepositional objects, the nominal relation that encodes the cognizer in this construction. Table 7 shows the raw frequencies from COCAsp by TAM and person of the prepositional object. We have broadened the searches to also include the adverbs which collocate with it dawns/dawned on. We provide some actual corpus returns in (4).
Table 7
Observed frequencies for [it (adv) dawn on pro] in COCAsp
dawn on me you him her us them Row Total
it dawns on PRO 3 1 1 5
it dawned on PRO 33 3 9 1 1 2 49
it never dawned on PRO 9 2 11
it just dawned on PRO 8 1 9
it really dawned on PRO 8 1 9
it finally dawned on PRO 4 3 1 8
it suddenly dawned on PRO 6 1 7
it slowly dawned on PRO 1 2 3
it gradually dawned on PRO 1 1 2
it fully dawned on PRO 1 1
it probably dawned on PRO 1 1
Column Total 74 4 13 3 7 4 105
Column Total / Row Total as Percentage 71% 4% 12% 3% 6% 4% 100%
(4) a. I was meeting people and talking to them, and while talking to them, it dawned on me — oh, my God, Nick, you're talking about something I've heard of. I know this song. (SPOK: NPR_Fresh Air, 2015) b. I don't know how we were lucky enough to figure that out, but — and it suddenly dawned on me what I truly have in common with everybody else is this one man's vision affected all of us. (SPOK: NPR_Sunday, 2000)
A brief final point about the [it dawn on PRO] construction and the collocating adverbs listed in Table 7. For the most part, the rather absolute and categorical never, just, finally, and fully, along with the intensified really and suddenly show a marked preference for 1sg, as does the construction as a whole. We do not regard it as incidental that the less forceful or dynamic adverbs slowly and gradually, or the indeterminate probably, show a slight preference for non-1sg cognizers. A point we make in §5 is that a range of somewhat covert semantic notions like these seem to be attached to the way 1st person singular ideation is construed. These are not necessarily associations evident in I think, but which nevertheless guide the non-ideational expressions that come to take on epistemic force towards or away from 1sg.
4.2.3. Vstasis in/on PRO's mind
A thought, idea, or bit of knowledge can be in or on one's mind in English. Such expressions suggest simple, stative locative constructions, far from the dynamic construals afforded by the likes of it struck someone, it hit someone, or it dawned on someone examined previously. Nevertheless, the fact that these expressions are based on a spatial metaphor and metonymy [viz. the place (mind) is the locus of activity (thinking) happening in that place]. While 1sg cognizers were prevalent in those other constructions, the more static, in/on one's mind, show only modest preferences for 1st person. Table 8 presents the returns from COCAsp for in PRO's mind and on PRO's mind, respectively. A handful of actual returns from the corpus follow in (5).
Fewer than half of the examples in COCAsp of the [in/on PRO mind] construction involve a 1sg cognizer (in the form of the possessor of mind). Indeed, these constructions seem to be better distributed across all the potential sentient players: 1sg (47%), 2 (30%), 3sgm/f (17%), 1pl (3%), 3pl (3%), in proportions far closer to those "background" frequency distributions reported in Table 1 for all lexical verbs, as represented in COCAsp. The rank order is nearly the same, for example: 1sg (#1), 2 (#2), and then the rest at a distance. The lack of overwhelming attraction to 1sg suggests that the semantic properties associated with the fairly stative and locative [in/on PRO mind] construction are fairly neutral, person-wise. As we'll see below, the more active and dynamic the figurative expression, the more it displays an attraction to a 1sg cognizer.
Table 8
Observed frequencies for [in | on [app*] mind] in COCAsp
my your his her our their Row Total
in PRO's mind 1,915 1,105 384 128 56 134 3,722
on PRO's mind 205 235 189 55 74 19 777
Column Total 2,120 1,340 573 183 130 153 4,499
Column Total / Row Total as Percentage 47% 30% 13% 4% 3% 3% 100%
(5) a. I mean — I thought and, you know, knowing how I felt about him. I was angry, because in my mind he was doing that to—that was like his parting gift, right? (SPOK: CNN_The Lead with Jake Tapper, 2017)
b. You know, I found that some of them never even pulled a gun out. They shoot — you know, they just reached down and grabbed the gun and twisted their holster and fired right through the holster. So in your mind, you think because we've always shown Westerns that they take it out and shoot — some of them never took them out. (SPOK: NPR_Fresh Air, 2016)
c. you don't wake up in the morning and immediately start thinking about that. What's on people's minds is what's on your mind and my mind and everybody else's mind, and that is how am I going to provide for my family? (SPOK: CBS_ThisMorning, 2012)
d. That's why it's weighing very heavy. It's been weighing heavy for 37 years on his mind. I think he really wants to tell it. (SPOK: NBC_Dateline, 2005)
4.2.4. Vmotion through PRO's mind
Similar to the in/on one's mind expressions just examined, an idea, thought, or realization can pass through one's mind, in a slightly more dynamic fashion. Because motion verbs are involved, we have naturally categorized these as activity expressions. Admittedly, the epistemic or ideational sense is brought about figuratively by the presence of the locative nominal, mind. However, the choice of verb is somewhat affected by the choice of possessive pronoun in ways reminiscent of the 1sg vs. 2 person differences noted above in other expressions. Far and away, the most frequent verb to enter into this construction is go, a nearly manner-less verb of motion. The more force-dynamic the verb, however, the more likely it is being used to express ideation in my mind/head. Table 9 gives the lemmatized frequencies for ideation constructed with verbs of motion through the mind or head. Some actual returns from COCAsp are presented in (6).
Table 9
Observed frequencies for [vv0/vvz through [app*] mind] in COCAsp. Here, we only present lemmatized results because we are specifically focusing on choice of verb with different prepositional objects, not TAM forms. The verbs are impressionistically arranged in order of increasing degree of energy, punctualness, or forcefulness, rather than frequency.
When the locus of motion is head, not mind, the counts are given in parentheses. Aggregate counts are given in the row marked Total
VERBmotion through PRO's mind (head) my your his her our their Row Total
float 1 1
roll 1 (1) 1 (1)
slide 1 1
pass 2 2 4
cross 2 1 3
come 2 1 3
go 130 (43) 490 (84) 36 (10) 22 (9) 4 (1) 682 (147)
run 19 (20) 10 (3) 7 1 (1) 1 38 (24)
rush 1 (1) 1 2 (1)
race 3 (1) 3 (1)
jump 1 1
flash 8 (3) (1) 8 (4)
Column Total 237 596 53 33 6 925
Column Total / Row Total as Percentage 25% 64% 7% 3.5% .5% 100%
(6) a. Give me more of what went through your mind as you read this thing, that made you say, "I have to have it". (SPOK: CBS_SundayMorning, 1993)
b. And when [she] said to me, "Well, how are you doing?" I, you know, it just flashed through my mind. I have asked that question to people in so many settings across our country and even the world for so many years, and I felt like, you know, we're finally understanding that that's what it's about. (SPOK: CBS_GMA, 2008)
c. And, Terry, you've been listening to this as well. I'm just wondering if any other thoughts floating through your mind about this? (SPOK: CNN_TalkBack, 2002)
Further to the discussion in §4.2.3, we see a definite preference for 2nd person cognizers in figurative expressions suggesting that ideation involves movement (of a concept or percept) through one's mind or head. That said, we add the proviso that this agreement preference holds only for the most manner-less motion verb, go, which nevertheless accounts for nearly 90% of the examples. With motion verbs that conflate manner or path or, especially, an active dynamism, as in run, race, or flash, the agreement preference tilts back to 1sg. Of note is the fact that the one instance of the rather passive, [float through one's mind], involves a 2nd person cognizer.
4.2.5. "lightbulbs" and other "suddenly realize" expressions
Rounding out this discussion of miscellaneous, physical domain expressions that have taken on an ideational or epistemic reading are a pair of constructions that revolve around concrete nouns, specifically lightbulb and penny. In English, one can say that a lightbulb went off/on in/over one's head, meaning that one has suddenly had a realization about something. This imagery-rich concept for realization only seems to be attested since the 1960s on Google N-gram Viewer (https://books.google.com/ngrams/) and only three examples are available from COHA, the Corpus of Historical American English, a sister corpus to COCA (available at https://corpus.byu.edu/coha/), all three of which are from the decade following the year 2000. There is quite a bit of constructional variation involving this variant of "seeing the light" for realization6. The lightbulb can go on or off in one's head, as in (7a-b), over one's head, as in (7c-d), or be completely reduced to someone having a lightbulb moment, as in (7e-f).
(7) a. So, while I was flipping through these books, I suddenly had this little lightbulb go on in my head and I said, "Hey, I'll write the kind of book I want my daughter to read". (SPOK: NPR_Weekend, 1994)
b. It's funny that you bring up the apple because of all the topics in the book, I found the apple — every page was another lightbulb going off in my head, the aha factor in apples... that if you plant the seed from an apple that you're eating, you're not going to get that apple back again. (SPOK: NPR_Science, 2001)
c. My reaction was — I believe a small lightbulb popped over the head, and I went, (singing) opportunity... (SPOK: NPR_FreshAir, 2014)
d. I decided I was going to give her one last verbal command: "If you don't drop that gun, I'm going to shoot you. " Finally, it's like the lightbulb went on over this woman's head. She dropped the gun. (SPOK: NPR_FreshAir, 2004)
e. So here's the big lightbulb moment for me. In 1994, someone got the idea of entering a group of Tarahumara runners in this legendary race called the Leadville Trail 100. (SPOK: TEDRadioHour, 2015)
f. WINFREY: Thirty-two-year-old Glen says it took the loss of thousands of lives for him to have his own lightbulb moment. Take a look at what happened to Glen. Mr-GLEN-UPTON-IPl: September 11th was a lightbulb moment for me. (SPOK: Ind_Oprah, 2001)
6 A search in all of COCA for PRO [see] the light yielded 193 returns, 43 of which were figurative in the sense of 'realize'. Of these, 17 involved a first person singular subject, 7 involved second person, 9 third person singular, and 10 third person plural. Again, we see that the expression is tilted towards a preference for 1sg subjects in terms of raw frequency. This matches the 1sg preference pattern for the figurative reading of a/the lightbulb went off/on, which collocates most frequently with in my mind/head, over my head, and the like.
Of the 24 figurative examples with lightbulb in COCAsp indicating that ideation or realization is happening in or above someone's head are no less than 11 separate constructions. Nevertheless, there is very interesting patterning by agreement, as shown in Table 10. One could even say that there's a complementary distribution holding for the dative-like readings (in which a lightbulb goes on/off for me, but not for others), as well as expressions in which the lightbulb is explicitly located in my head, as opposed to being implicitly located in someone's head).
Table 10
Observed frequencies for figurative uses of lightbulb in COCAsp. We list the full range of ideational
constructions-by-agreement patterns (where cognizer might be the subject (nominative), possessor (genitive) or beneficiary (dative) of the idea-emitting lightbulb. Although the frequencies are quite low, the inflectional skewing is quite pronounced
lightbulb 1sg 2 3sg 1pl 3pl Row Total
the lightbulb go off (PRO implicit) 2 2
a lightbulb go on (PRO implicit) 2 2
a lightbulb go on over PRO's head 1 1
a lightbulb pop over (PRO implicit) 1 1
the lightbulb go off for PRO 1 1
the lightbulb go off in PRO's head 2 2
the lightbulb go on in PRO's head 1 1
PRO have a lightbulb moment 3 2 5
PRO have PRO's lightbulb moment 1 1 2
be a/the lightbulb moment for PRO 5 5
PRO's lightbulb (moment) 2 2
Column Total 12 4 6 2 24
Column Total / Row Total 50% 17% 25% 8% 100%
as Percentage
Finally, we make mention of an idiomatic expression about sudden realization more prevalent in British English than in North American: the penny dropped. A search of the GLoWbE corpus (Corpus of Global Web-Based English) available through the BYU website (https://corpus.byu.edu/glowbe/) gives the following raw frequencies for the expression by country, where N > 5: Great Britain (111), Ireland (32), Australia (32), USA (13), New Zealand (8), and Canada (5). There are only 2 examples in COCAsp, but both make clear that the cognizer is 1sg, as shown in (8):
(8) a. I found the neurophysiology and the neuroanatomy the most interesting part of my studies, although it took a while before the penny dropped and I fell off my donkey and decided I was going to become a neurosurgeon ". (SPOK: NPR_Fresh Air, 2015)
b. Det-CHAMBERS: I didn't know how David Coffin had died. No one knew. Ms-LEE: And that was the first time the penny dropped, and I went, "Oh, my God. Oh, my God". (SPOK: CBS_48Hours, 2007)
In the concluding section, we take stock of the semantic associations that tend to inhere in the verbal expressions about ideation surveyed here that disproportionately favour first person singular as opposed to second or third person cognizers.
5. DISCUSSION
Inspired by Sinclair 1991, Scheibman 2001, and other corpus linguists and gram-maticalization scholars who advocate the importance of drilling down and examining the inflectional, agreement, and collocational preferences of individual verbs and verbal constructions, we have noted that 1sg and 2nd person ideation in English, prototypically associated with I think and you know, are each drawing in different kinds of expressions to do epistemic work in the language. Because the two prototypes are effectively functioning as pragmatic markers rather than complement-taking ideational verbs, at least in spoken varieties of the language, a host of other expressions from very different semantic fields are undergoing epistemization processes and entering into constructions about cognition. Not so surprisingly, those epistemizing expressions exhibiting a 1sg bias share many attributes not enjoyed, necessarily, by those expressions showing a bias towards 2nd person, much like think and know have clearly gravitated in separate directions in terms of their agreement patterns. These differences lead us to conclude that 1sg and 2nd person (and possibly, 3rd as well) represent distinct styles of ideation and, consequently, have attracted and will continue to attract different kinds of novel expressions in their wake.
To put it in terms reminiscent of Spivey 2008 and contemporary cognitive scientists describing fluid models of categorization, high frequency of occurrence — be it in conceptualization pathways or motor routines — can be construed as "attractor basins" that act as centres of gravity for similar concepts or behaviours. Bybee (2010: 76—96) has similarly argued that forces of semantic change are affected by high-frequency items with heavy semantic pull. We, too, have applied this metaphor in an earlier presentation of this research, associating the Latin for 'I think', cogito, and the Latin for 'you know', scis (2sg) or scitis (2pl), with different cognitive models of ideation as if they were different craters on the moon. Admittedly, think and know in the abstract both have an unbounded (in the sense of Langacker 1991: 85—91), atelic, and imperfective quality to them as event types describing cognition (compare them to realize or learn). Nevertheless, we suggest that 1sg ideation, typified by I think, means something like 'I (suddenly) realize something', invoking semantic properties generally associated with prototypical transitive events, such as change of state, being telic and force-dynamic, and having a more compressed and punctual temporal profile. on the other hand, second person ideation, in the guise of you know, means something more stative like 'you have a thought' or 'you (continuously) ponder/consider something'. Thus, its connotations could be characterized as less transitive, more atelic, more durative, and less likely to involve change over time. As high-frequency attractor basins representing the semantic field of cognition, I think and you know — or more succinctly, 1 sg.ideate and 2.ideate — recruit different kinds of expressions to do epistemic work. Expressions examined above in COCAsp like what struck PRO about, it hit PRO that, a lightbulb went off in PRO's head, it raced through PRO's mind, the penny dropped (for PRO), show an undeniable preference for 1sg as PRO. These expressions overwhelmingly suggest a tight temporal profile and a discernable change of state or outcome; in short, a flash of realization. In a nutshell, when I think, my brain storms (it struck me like a bolt of lightning, it came to me in a flash); when you think, your brain waves (something's going on in your mind, you seem to be in the know).
We would like to end with a caveat about the wider interpretation of our findings. Our study has limited itself to English data and, even then, the study has been largely limited to the usage of think and know in the simple present tense and only in a conversational genre. Clearly, we are not in a position to make empirically justified claims about comparable behaviour of the counterparts to these verbs in other languages, or indeed other genres or tense/aspect categories in English. The sg/pl ambiguity associated with English you also invites further research into the preferences for 2sg and 2pl subject preferences for these verbs in other languages. There remains then the question of how specific to English our findings are and whether comparable preferences for subjects of think and know occur sometimes, frequently, very frequently, or always in other languages. We believe these are questions that can and should be further explored.
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Received: 10 May 2018 Revised: 25 May 2018 Accepted: 01 June 2018
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Rice, Sally and Newman, John (2018). A Corpus Investigation of English Cognition Verbs and their Effect on the Incipient Epistemization Physical Activity Verbs. Russian Journal of Linguistics, 22 (3), 560—580. doi: 10.22363/2312-9182-2018-22-3-560-580.
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Bionotes:
SALLY RICE is Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Alberta. Her research spans multiple sub-disciplines, including lexical semantics, comparative Athapaskan, corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics, and multimodality in language. She conducts fieldwork on Dene Saline and Tsuut'ina, two northern Athapaskan languages, and has been an active proponent and practitioner of community-university research alliances — community-based corpus-building in particular. She was a co-founder of the Canadian Indigenous Languages and Literacy Development Institute (CILLDI), an annual summer school for speakers of indigenous languages, which trains community language activists in linguistic analysis, language pedagogy, and revitalization project development and advocacy. Contact information: sally.rice@ualberta.ca
JOHN NEWMAN is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Alberta and an Adjunct Research Fellow in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University. His research focus has been mainly in areas of cognitive linguistics, especially cognitive linguistic approaches to basic verbs. His research interests also include corpus linguistics, quantitative methods in linguistics, and historical linguistics. He has published research on Germanic, Sinitic, Austronesian, and Papuan languages. He is currently the Outgoing Editor-in-Chief of the journal "Cognitive Linguistics". Contact information: john.newman@ualberta.ca
Сведения об авторах:
СЭЛЛИ РАЙС — профессор кафедры лингвистики в Университете Альберты. Сфера ее научных интересов охватывает многие направления, включая лексическую семантику, сравнительный анализ атабаскских языков, корпусную лингвистику, когнитивную лингвистику и мультимодальность в языке. Она проводит полевые исследования по двум северным атабаскским языкам — дене сулин и тсу т'ина — и является активным сторонником и организатором научного альянса сообщества общественности и университета, в частности в области совместного создания корпусов. Является одним из основателей Института канадских абори-генских языков и развития грамотности (CILLDI) и организатором ежегодной летней школы для говорящих на аборигенских языках, в которых проводятся обучение лингвистическому анализу, преподаванию языков, тренинги по развитию, защите и оживлению языков. Контактная информация: sally.rice@ualberta.ca
ДЖОН НЬЮМАН — Почетный профессор кафедры лингвистики в Университете Альберты и внештатный научный сотрудник Школы языков, литератур, культур и лингвистики в Университете Монаш. Его научные интересы находятся в области когнитивной лингвистики, в особенности подходы когнитивной лингвистики к базовым глаголам, они также включают историческую лингвистику, корпусную лингвистику, количественные методы исследований Его публикации основаны на анализе германских, синитских, австронезийских и папуасских языков.
Контактная информация: john.newman@ualberta.ca ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The authors contributed equally to the overall design of this research project and for the data collection and analysis. An earlier version of this research was presented at CSDL 12, UCSB, Santa Barbara, USA on November 4 2014, and we are grateful to the audience at that conference for valuable feedback. We would also like to thank Anna Gladkova and an anonymous reviewer for helpful comments on an earlier version of this article.
ФИНАНСИРОВАНИЕ И БЛАГОДАРНОСТИ
Авторы внесли равный вклад в написание данной статьи, а также в сбор и анализ материала. Предварительные результаты исследования были представлены на конференции CSDL12 (Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language), Cанта-Барбара, США, 4.11.2014, и мы благодарны аудитории за участие в обсуждении. Мы также выражаем благодарность Анне Гладковой и анонимному рецензенту за прочтение нашей статьи и полезные комментарии.
