Mapping Unity and Diversity World-Wide : Corpus-Based Studies of New Englishes.

Mapping Unity and Diversity World-Wide : Corpus-Based Studies of New Englishes.

This volume presents a collection of in-depth cross-varietal studies on a broad spectrum of grammatical features in English varieties spoken all over the world. The contributions explore the structural unity and diversity of New Englishes and thus investigate central aspects of dialect evolution and...

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Main Author: Hundt, Marianne
Other Authors: Gut, Ulrike
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012.
Series:Varieties of English around the world. General series ; v. 43.
Subjects:
English language > Variation > Foreign countries.
English language > Foreign countries.
Languages in contact.
Linguistic change.
Communication, International.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > General.
Communication, International
English language > Foreign countries
English language > Variation > Foreign countries
Languages in contact
Linguistic change
Englisch
Korpus > Linguistik
Sprachvariante
Weltsprache
Världsspråk.
Engelska språket.
Språkvariation.
Språkkontakter.
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Table of Contents:
  • Table of contents; International Corpus of English; Introduction; Off with their heads"; 1. Introduction; 2. The corpus-driven approach to TAM; 2.1 Tagging and chunking; 2.2 Beheaded verb groups; 2.3 Comparing observed and expected frequencies; 3. Corpus-driven results and analysis; 3.1 ICE-Fiji; 3.2 ICE-India; 3.3 ICE-New Zealand; 3.4 ICE-Ghana; 3.5 ICE-Great Britain; 4. Analysis of selected features; 4.1 Tense; 4.1.1 Lexical heads and tense; 4.1.2 Qualitative analysis: A case study on perfect constructions; 4.1.2.1 Past perfect.; 4.1.2.2 Present perfect.; 4.2 Modality; 4.3 The progressive.
  • 5. ConclusionReferences; Appendix; Modals and quasi-modals in New Englishes; 1. Introduction; 2. Recent diachronic trends; 3. The Englishes; 4. The data; 5. The Englishes compared; 6. Speech and writing compared; 7. The individual quasi-modals; 7.1 have to; 7.2 have got to; 7.3 be going to; 7.4 want to; 8. Conclusion; References; The diverging need (to)'s of Asian Englishes; 1. Introduction; 2. Need and need to in 1960s and 1990s British and American English; 3. A methodological preliminary: British English once more; 4. The needs of four Asian Englishes; 5. Conclusion; Acknowledgements.
  • 6.1 Maltese and British newspaper corpora6.2 Comparison of spoken and written corpus data; 7. Qualitative analysis; 8. Questionnaire data; 9. Conclusion; References; Mapping unity and diversity in South Asian English lexicogrammar; 1. Introduction: Unity and diversity in and across South Asian Englishes; 2. Verb-complementational patterns as parameters of variation; 3. Verb complementation of TCM-related verbs in South Asian Englishes; 3.1 The patterns of CONVEY, SUBMIT and SUPPLY?; 3.2 TCM-related verbs: previous studies of verb-complementational variation; 4. Corpus data.
  • 4.1 The international corpus of english (ICE)4.2 Web-derived newspaper corpora; 5. Analysis and results; 5.1 Verbs under scrutiny: CONVEY, SUBMIT and SUPPLY; 5.2 CONVEY in the ICE and SAVE corpora; 5.3 SUBMIT in the ICE and SAVE corpora; 5.4 SUPPLY in the ICE and SAVE corpora; 6. Discussion and conclusion; References; Particle verbs across first and second language varieties of English; 1. Introduction: Unity and diversity in World Englishes; 2. Particle verbs in first and second language varieties of English; 3. Methodology; 3.1 Corpus data
  • the International Corpus of English.

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