Central question: is the choice of try to- vs. try
and-constructions (I’m gonna try to fix this problem
vs. I’m gonna try and fix this problem, which is in the column
TRY) dependent in some way on the following 3 predictors
and all their interactions:
MODE: whether the data represent spoken (spk)
or written (wrt) English;VARIETY: whether the data represent American
(amer) or British English (brit);CLAUSE: does the clause in which try is used
with to or and already involve another to (as
in we’re going -> to <- try and beat this
thing) or not (other)?(Source: Hommerberg, Charlotte & Gunnel Tottie. 2007. Try to or Try and? Verb complementation in British and American English. ICAME Journal 31. 45-64.)
Analyze the data like we discussed and summarize the results (briefly).
rm(list=ls(all.names=TRUE))
summary(x <- read.delim( # summarize x, the result of loading
file="105_11d_try-corp.csv", # this file
stringsAsFactors=TRUE)) # change categorical variables into factors## CASE TRY VARIETY MODE CLAUSE
## Min. : 1 and:1631 amer:1187 spk:2257 other:1662
## 1st Qu.: 808 to :1598 brit:2042 wrt: 972 to :1567
## Median :1615
## Mean :1615
## 3rd Qu.:2422
## Max. :3229