“The verb suppose and style in Benjamin Franklin’s English: A case study of intra-writer variation”
The following article of mine has been newly published. It is a contribution to the festschrift for Professor Hiroyuki Takada, with whom I have collaborated for a long time, especially in the field of historical sociolinguistics.
Bibliographical details
Iyeiri, Yoko. 2025. “The verb suppose and style in Benjamin Franklin’s English: A case study of intra-writer variation”, in Sprachgeschichte – soziolinguistisch, pragmatisch und politisch. Festschrift für Hiroyuki Takada, ed. Stephan Elspaß, Hirofumi Hosokawa & Megumi Sato, pp. 125-139. (Germanistische Bibliothek 87). Heidelberg: Winter.
This paper consists of the following sections:
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 The Dataset: The Benjamin Franklin Corpus (BF Corpus)
3 Suppose as a private verb
4 Involved style
4.1 Overall frequencies of suppose
4.2 The grammatical subject of suppose
5 I suppose as a comment clause
6 Other uses of suppose
7 Discussion of results and final conclusion
References
The following video includes a brief summary of this paper.
Related publications
- Iyeiri, Yoko. 2025 Benjamin Franklin’s English: Form to Function Analyses. Abingdon: Routledge.
- Iyeiri, Yoko. 2018. “Negation in Benjamin Franklin’s Writings: A Stylistic Analysis of his Autobiography and Letters”, in Proceedings of the 4th Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference (APCLC 2018), Takamatsu, Japan, September 17-19, ed. Yukio Tono and Hitoshi Ishihara, pp. 178-183.
