Una ontología del cuerpo, desde la vulnerabilidad y precariedad

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Spoken data for put + particles

0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160

Down In Off On Out Up Down In Off On Out Up

Spoken tot.freq for Put Spoken freq/mio for Put

ICE-K ICE-T ICE-GB

Table 16 (Put + particles in spoken data)

ICE-K ICE-T ICE-GB tot.number freq/mio tot.number freq/mio tot.number freq/mio Put

down 3 7,7 3 14 32 50,2

Put in 37 94,9 13 60,8 94 147,4

Put off 4 10,3 0 0 12 18,8

Put on 37 94,9 13 60,8 66 103,5

Put out 1 2,6 1 4,7 5 7,8

Put up 13 33,3 11 18,8 12 18,8

total 95 243,7 41 159,1 221 346,5

The first verb + particle combination put down is relatively rare in the East African spoken corpus (a total of three instances in both): in the ICE-K there are 7, 7

cases/mio while in ICE-T the figures are 14 cases/mio. In the ICE-GB, however, the normalised frequency count is 50, 2 cases per mio. The result on the ICE-EA further supports the findings on the rarity of particle down in EAfE particle verb formation.

Opposite to put down¸ the second particle verb, put in, is fairly common in the ICE-EA: there are 94, 9 cases/mio in the ICE-K and 60, 8/mio in the ICE-T. Despite these fairly high frequencies, that of the ICE-GB data is even higher: 147, 4

cases/mio.

Next, put off again is rare in the East African data: in the ICE-K there are 10, 3 cases/mio (or four instances in total) while in ICE-T this particle verb does not occur at all. This then falls in line with the previous results on this particle (off). In the ICE-GB there are 18,8 cases/mio. Thus, in British English this particle verb is still fairly common.

Continuing on the next combination, the particle verb put on results in fairly high frequencies in all of the three corpora. The lowest frequencies are in the ICE-T: 60, 8 cases/mio. In the ICE-K there are 94, 9 cases/mio which is almost as much as in the ICE-GB (103, 5/mio).

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Put out for its part is extremely rare in both ICE-K and ICE-T (2, 6/mio and 4, 7/mio) with just one instance in both of the corpora. The ICE-GB also gives fairly low figures for this particle verb: 7, 8 cases/mio.

The last particle verb in this group, namely put up occurs fairly often in all of the corpora. The frequencies for the ICE-K are 33, 3/mio, 56, 1/mio for ICE-T and 18, 8/mio for ICE-GB. Next I will see if the written data results differ from these findings.

Here is the chart and the table for the written data results of put + particles.

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Written data for put + particles

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Written tot.freq for Put Written freq/mio for Put

ICE-K ICE-T ICE-GB

Table 17 (Put + particles in written data)

ICE-K ICE-T ICE-GB tot.number freq/mio tot.number freq/mio tot.number freq/mio Put

In the written data, the frequencies are again generally lower than in the spoken data.

However, there are some exceptions. For instance, with the first particle verb, put down, the frequencies in the ICE-K exceed those in the spoken data: 14, 9 cases/mio

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vs. 7, 7/mio. In written ICE-T there are 7, 5 cases/mio (spoken: 14/mio) while in the ICE-GB put down occurs 18, 9 times/mio (spoken: 50, 2/mio).

The next particle verb, put in is fairly frequent in all of the three corpora. ICE-T presenting the lowest frequencies has 39, 8 cases/mio while the figures for ICE-GB are 40, 1. The highest frequencies are found in the ICE-K: 54, 7 cases/mio. However, all of the frequencies with put in are lower in the written data than in the spoken one.

Next, put off is relatively rare throughout. ICE-K results in 5 cases/mio, ICE-T in 12, 4/mio, and ICE-GB in 14, 2/mio. However, with the ICE-T, the result on put off is interesting as the spoken data did not have any case of this particle verb at all. Here in the written data there are a total of 5 instances of put off.

The fourth particle verb, put on, follows the tendencies perceived in the spoken data although the frequencies for ICE-K and ICE-GB are lower. However, the ICE-T exhibits slightly higher frequencies in the written data: 69, 7 cases/mio (spoken: 60, 8 mio). ICE-K has 49, 8 cases/mio while in the ICE-GB put on occurs 66, 1 times/mio.

Further on, put out is nearly non-existent in the ICE-K: only 2, 5 cases/mio (one single instance) and totally non-existent in the ICE-T. In the spoken data the tendency was the same (2, 6/mio in ICE-K and 4, 7/mio in ICE-T). The ICE-GB does not have many instances of put out either: the normalised frequency is 14, 2/mio with six instances in total. Actually, here in the written data the frequencies in the British corpus are ever slightly higher than in the spoken data (7, 8/mio) Thus, it seems that in the ICE-EA put out is extremely rare but it is does not occur frequently even in the ICE-GB data.

Put up occurs 19, 9 times/mio in ICE-T data: while in the spoken data the figure was 18, 8 cases/mio. The written data results for put up in the ICE-K are 32, 3

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cases/mio which is almost the same frequency as in the spoken data. In ICE-GB the frequency (2, 4/mio) is noticeably lower than in the spoken data (18, 8).

6.4.2 Semantic Analysis of put in, put on, and put up