Variability with Infinitival TO in Present Day American English - Shin, Youn Kyung
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Variation between the presence and absence of the infinitival marker 'to' in complementation in American English is documented in this work. Data from internet usage and from a questionnaire survey are presented, with correlations offered between the survey results and various linguistic and social factors. Linguistic factors examined are the type of sentence and the negation of the infinitives. The social factor examined is gender.

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Variation between the presence and absence of the infinitival marker 'to' in complementation in American English is documented in this work. Data from internet usage and from a questionnaire survey are presented, with correlations offered between the survey results and various linguistic and social factors. Linguistic factors examined are the type of sentence and the negation of the infinitives. The social factor examined is gender.
Autorenporträt
Youn Kyung Shin studied at The Ohio State University in the USA for her BA and MA. She worked on code-switching for her BA project. Under the guidance of her advisor, Brian D. Joseph, and her other MA committee members, Robert Levine and Donald Winford, she did research on morphosyntactic variation in present day American English for her MA thesis.