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<p>The research traces the development of functional transposition of <italic>TILL</italic> and <italic>UNTIL</italic> in English. The study covers 16 historical periods and is based on 1,243 examples extracted from the writings from 850 to 1710, which are analyzed without resorting to any corpus software; 2,225 examples from 1710 to 1920, which are automatically tagged utilizing the corpus toolbox Lancsbox; and the statistical data on 127,544 examples over the period of 1920–2020. It is hypothesized that despite being synonyms and representatives of the same grammatical categories of prepositions and conjunctions in modern English, the lexical units <italic>TILL</italic> and <italic>UNTIL</italic> were initially formed as prepositions and later, following their own transpositional patterns, they were transposed into conjunctions.</p>
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The research traces the development of functional transposition of TILL and UNTIL in English. The study covers 16 historical periods and is based on 1,243 examples extracted from the writings from 850 to 1710, which are analyzed without resorting to any corpus software; 2,225 examples from 1710 to 1920, which are automatically tagged utilizing the corpus toolbox Lancsbox; and the statistical data on 127,544 examples over the period of 1920–2020. It is hypothesized that despite being synonyms and representatives of the same grammatical categories of prepositions and conjunctions in modern English, the lexical units TILL and UNTIL were initially formed as prepositions and later, following their own transpositional patterns, they were transposed into conjunctions.

Functional transposition of  <italic>TILL</italic> and <italic>UNTIL</italic> from a diachronic perspective

Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University

ExELL

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Functional transposition of   and  from a diachronic perspective

The research traces the development of functional transposition of TILL and UNTIL in English. The study covers 16 historical periods and is based on 1,243...

Functional transposition of TILL and UNTIL from a diachronic perspective

Published Online: May 14, 2023

Page range: 66 - 89

Received: Jun 26, 2022

Accepted: Nov 14, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/exell-2023-0001

Keywords
functional transposition, preposition, conjunction, adverb, Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English, Late Modern English, Present-Day English

© 2023 Yurii Kovbasko, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Functional transposition of TILL and UNTIL from a diachronic perspective

Published Online: May 14, 2023

Page range: 66 - 89

Received: Jun 26, 2022

Accepted: Nov 14, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/exell-2023-0001

Keywordsfunctional transposition, preposition, conjunction, adverb, Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English, Late Modern English, Present-Day English

© 2023 Yurii Kovbasko, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
functional transposition, preposition, conjunction, adverb, Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English, Late Modern English, Present-Day English