20.500.12556/DKUM-40272 The use of determiners in English historical texts: example of the book Postwar: A history of Europe since 1945 Raba določil v angleških zgodovinskih besedilih: primer knjige Postwar: A history of Europe since 1945 The theoretical part of the thesis is based on Biber's Grammar of spoken and written English (1999), and Blaganje's Modern English Grammar (2005). I examined all types of determiners which can function as a modifier in a nominal phrase. So, the focus was on articles, possessive determiners, demonstrative determines, quantifiers, numerals, semi-determiners and wh-determiners. In theoretical part I presented the use of these determiners across different registers (prose, academic literature, fiction, news). The main purpose of the empirical part was an analysis of nominal phrases in order to get data about the use of determiners in English historical texts. The analysis was based on a passage consisting of 5 pages from Tony Judt's Postwar: A history of Europe Since 1945 (2005). In the analysis I focused on those nominal phrases which functioned in a sentence as a subject or an object. An analysis of the selected passage of the historical text gave the following results. The most headwords in a nominal phrase are premodified by an article, adjective or some other noun on noun phrase, while the most common postmodifier is a prepositional phrase. Among articles, the most frequently used is the definite article. The most frequent use of the zero article is with unique reference, of the definite article with cataphoric and of indefinite article with specific reference. Possessive determiners are, as is typical for academic writing, quite rarely used in the analyzed passage. More frequent are those with non-human reference (its, their). Also the use of demonstrative determiners is in the analyzed passage consistend with the use of demonstrative determiners in academic prose in general. In my analysis I found only a few quantifiers functioning as a determiner in a nominal phrase. The quantifier both is the most frequently used quantifier. Surprisingly, there are only four examples of numerals in the selected historical text as a part of a nominal phrase. But my assumption that there will be more examples of cardinals than ordinals was correct. Semi-determiners are very rare, I found only two examples of the semi-determiner other as a premodifier in a nominal phrase. There are no examples of such, which is otherwise the most frequent semi-determiner in academic prose. There were no cases wh-determiners as a part of a nominal phrase found in the analyzed passage. Wh- determiners are used only as a part of a postmodifying structure in a relative clause. The research was carried out manually, while the statistical results are shown in graphs made by the computer. The methods used in thesis are the descriptive method and causal non-experimenting method. Osrednja sestava teoretičnega dela temelji na Biberjevi Grammar of spoken and written English (1999) in Blaganje Modern English Grammar (2005). Preučila sem vse tipe določil, ki lahko dopolnjujejo samostalniško frazo. Torej poudarek je bil na členih, svojilnih določilih, kazalnih določilih, količinskih določilih, števnikih, pol-določilih in wh-določilih. V teoretičnem delu sem predstavila uporabo teh določil v različnih registrih (proza, akademsko pisanje, fikcija, novice). Glavni cilj empiričnega dela je bila analiza samostalniških fraz z namenom pridobiti podatke o uporabi določil v angleških zgodovinskih tekstih. Analiza je temeljila na 5 straneh iz knjige Tony Judt Postwar: A history of Europe since 1945 (2005). V analizi sem se osredotočila na tiste samostalniške fraze, ki so imele v stavku funkcijo osebka ali predmeta. Analiza izbranega zgodovinskega teksta je dala naslednje rezultate. Kot levi prilastek v večini samostalniških frazah nastopa člen, pridevnik ali neki drugi samostalnik ali samostalniška fraza, medtem ko v funkciji desnega prilastka najbolj pogosto nastopa predložna fraza. Med členi je najpogosteje uporabljeni določni člen. Ničelni členi so najpogosteje uporabljeni z edinstveno referenco, določni s kataforično in nedoločni s specifično. Svojilna določila so bila rabljena redko, kot je tudi sicer na splošno značilno za akademske tekste. Bolj pogosta so bila tista z nečloveškim pomenom (its, their). Tudi raba kazalnih določil v izbranem zgodovinskem tekstu je bila podobna splošni rabi v akademskih tekstih. Pri svoji analizi sem zasledila le nekaj količinskih izrazov v vlogi določila v samostalniški frazi. Količinski zaimek both je bil najpogosteje uporabljeno količinsko določilo. Presenetljivo sem skozi analizo našla le 4 primere števnikov. Kljub temu je bilo moje predvidevanje, da bo v tekstu več števnih kot vrstilnih števnikov, pravilno. Tudi pol-določila so bila izjemno redka, zasledila sem le 2 primera pol-določila other v vlogi prilastka v samostalniški frazi. Primera rabe such ni bilo, četudi je drugače najpogosteje rabljeno pol-določilo v akademski prozi na splošno. Wh- določila so bila uporabljena le kot del oziralnega stavka v vlogi desnega prilastka v samostalniški frazi. Raziskava je bila narejena ročno, statistični rezultati so prikazani v grafih, narejenimi s pomočjo računalnika. Uporabljeni sta deskriptivna in kavzalna neeksperimentalna metoda. noun phrase determiners articles possessive determiners demonstrative determines quantifiers numerals semi-determiners wh-determiners determiners in historical texts samostalniška fraza določila členi svojilna določila kazalna določila količinska določila števniki pol-določila wh-določila samostalniška določila v zgodovinski literaturi true true false [K. 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