Data Analysis

Abstract

In this chapter, I present the results of tabulating preverbal and postverbal tokens of pronoun placement according to Mackridge’s classification, and compare them to his description. After the more transparent discrepancies are settled, I turn my attention to the groups of elements that Mackridge identified, in order to determine whether the cohesiveness of the groups and their relevant ranking are confirmed by the statistical analysis. Finally, I make an initial attempt to uncover the unifying characteristic for each group of elements, and in doing so I present a new description of the variation that is based on the existence of seven factors: clause-initial position, οὐ ‘not’, reduplicated object, subject, temporal expression, fronted constituent, and function word.