Table 2.
Counts and percentages from the Contemporary Corpus of American English. Note that there were a few Determiner contrasts observed, which were not syntactically Determiners, and there were no instances of P contrasts. Otherwise, the table was computed as in Table 1.
| Locality | Finality | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total counts | Local | Non Local | Final | Non Final | Contrast | |
| Adj | 25 (3%) | 25 (100%) | 0 (0%) | 14 (56%) | 11 (44%) | 64 (8%) |
| Adv | 7 (1%) | 7 (100%) | 0 (0%) | 7 (100%) | 0 (0%) | 10 (1%) |
| Det | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | 5 (1%) |
| N | 2 (0%) | 2 (100%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 2 (100%) | 34 (4%) |
| NP | 395 (51%) | 284 (72%) | 111 (28%) | 332 (84%) | 65 (16%) | 352 (45%) |
| PP | 60 (8%) | 48 (80%) | 12 (20%) | 59 (98%) | 1 (2%) | 35 (5%) |
| SC | 28 (4%) | 27 (96%) | 1 (4%) | 25 (89%) | 3 (11%) | 22 (3%) |
| V | 27 (3%) | 27 (100%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 27 (100%) | 52 (7%) |
| VP | 230 (30%) | 218 (95%) | 12 (5%) | 219 (95%) | 11 (5%) | 201 (26%) |