The Development of Syntactic Complexity in IMO Assembly Resolutions from 1959 to 2019
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Research on syntactic complexity has become an important field in linguistics. The aim of the current study is to investigate the diachronic changes of the syntactic complexity of International Maritime Organization (IMO) Assembly Resolutions in a period of 60 years. Under a corpus-based approach, this present study analyzes 438 texts of IMO Assembly Resolutions from 1959 to 2019. Using the Tool for the Automatic Assessment of Syntactic Sophistication and Complexity, this study measures syntactic complexity of the text by three indices which include the mean of clausal dependent types, the mean of phrase types and the mean of dependents in phrase. This investigation has revealed the syntactic features to the type of clausal, phrase and dependent in phrase of IMO Assembly Resolutions. This study then further analyzed the diachronic changes of IMO Assembly Resolutions at different periods. The results may have implications for future studies on the features of assembly resolutions in the field of Maritime English and its learning and teaching as well.
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Research on syntactic complexity has become an important field in linguistics. The aim of the current study is to investigate the diachronic changes of the syntactic complexity of International Maritime Organization (IMO) Assembly Resolutions in a period of 60 years. Under a corpus-based approach, this present study analyzes 438 texts of IMO Assembly Resolutions from 1959 to 2019. Using the Tool for the Automatic Assessment of Syntactic Sophistication and Complexity, this study measures syntactic complexity of the text by three indices which include the mean of clausal dependent types, the mean of phrase types and the mean of dependents in phrase. This investigation has revealed the syntactic features to the type of clausal, phrase and dependent in phrase of IMO Assembly Resolutions. This study then further analyzed the diachronic changes of IMO Assembly Resolutions at different periods. The results may have implications for future studies on the features of assembly resolutions in the field of Maritime English and its learning and teaching as well.
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