Dialectal Deviation Dialectism Deviation of Register

a Type of Syntactic Deviations 1 PP Displacement Preposition phrases PPs have a wide distribution in English. PPs can give informations to the reader about place, time, position of things, etc. In poetry, authors often displaces PPs to make the poems rymed, metred, or to be artistic Thoms, G., 2010: 22. Table 2. Examples of PP Displacement. No. Examples of PP Displacement Author 1. Children in the street Watch him go by. “Is that the thinnest shadow?” They to one another cry. By:John Ashbery, ‘The Thinnest Shadow’ 2. one, the smallest, to the water goes. By:Robert Creeley, ‘Beach’ The two examples are taken from John Asbery’s collected poems 2008 and the collected poems of Robert Creeley 2006. They are interesting because there is a displacement between preposition and verb. Both of examples have a Subject-PP-Verb pattern, and obviously the result from the displacement of a PP from a standard S-V-PP one. This PP displacement occurs in many other configurations in poetic texts. 2 NP Displacement Thoms, G. 2010: 35 states that the distribution of noun phrases or NPs is different from PPs, and the specifics of Np distribution are tied to certain aspects of their semantic interpretation in a certain sentence. Table 3. Examples of NP Displacement. No. Examples of NP Displacement Author 1. Can’t myself let off this fiction. “You don’t exist. Robert Creeley, ‘Echo of ’ 2. Baby , you’re dead.” Robert Creeley, ‘Echo of Both of the examples are also taken from the collected poems of Robert Creeley 2006. Obviously, Nps are placed in wrong position and as what Thoms, G. said that this Np distribution can affect the meaning of the sentence semantically. In example no.1, the structure of the sentnce should be S+Aux+V+O, but that sentence switch the object as Np myself with the verb let . This part of poem is quite interesting because Robert does not write that way because of the rhyme. In example no. 2, since Thoms, G. 2010: 39 categorised it into Np displacement, so the sentence should be you’re dead baby which means that the speaker is saying to someone that heshe is already dead; it might be a physically or mentally dead. However, the expression can also mean that the persona is addressing to somebody close to him. 3 AP Displacement According to Thoms, G. 2010: 49, adjectival phrases APs have more restricted distributions than NPs and PPs, and there are fewer operations for moving APs than for NPs and PPs.