Grammatical Change in English World-Wide

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Grammatical Change in English World-Wide
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Introduction
References
Part 1. Inner circle Englishes
Diachronic variation in the grammar of Australian English
1. Introduction
2. The study of grammatical change in AusE
3. Corpora and methodology
3.1 The corpora
3.2 The methodology
4. Morphological variables
4.1 Regularisation of irregular past tense and past participle forms
4.2 's-genitives
5. Morphosyntactic variables
5.1 The subjunctive
5.1.1 The mandative subjunctive
5.1.2 The were-subjunctive in hypothetical conditional and concessive clauses
5.2 Concord with collective nouns
6. Syntactic variables
6.1 Light verbs
6.2 Non-finite complementation with help and prevent
6.2.1 Help (NP) (to) V
6.2.2 Prevent NP (from) Ving
6.3 Do-support (with negation)
6.4 Be-passives
7. Conclusion
Acknowledgement
References
At the crossroads of change
1. Introduction
2. The history of English have and the transatlantic divide
3. Victoria (British Columbia, Canada) as a sociolinguistic entity
4. Data and methods
4.1 The British Colonist
4.2 Methodology
5. Results
5.1 Overall trends
5.2 A closer look at have got
6. Discussion and conclusion
References
Do-support in early New Zealand and Australian English
1. Introduction
2. Background to the study
2.1 A brief comparative history of Australian and New Zealand English
2.2 Do-support in Late Modern English
3. Data and methodology
3.1 Corpora of early southern hemisphere English
3.2 Definition of the variable and data retrieval
4. Findings
4.1 Negation
4.2 Lexical have
5. Conclusion
References
Appendix
Acknowledgements
The progressive in Irish English
1. Introduction
2. The corpora
3. Progressives
3.1 The event or activity progressive
3.2 The habitual bounded progressive
3.3 The habitual nonbounded progressive
3.4 The single-occasion repetitive progressive
3.5 The futurate progressive
3.6 The mental nonbounded progressive
3.7 The mental bounded progressive
3.8 The punctual progressive
3.9 The agentive stative progressive
3.10 The non-agentive stative progressive
3.11 The WILL progressive, or the future as matter of course progressive
3.12 The modal progressive
3.13 The DO progressive
3.14 The extended-now progressive
3.15 The attitudinal progressive
3.16 The interpretive progressive
3.17 The generic progressive
3.18 The politeness progressive
3.19 The resultative progressive
3.20 The anaphoric progressive
4. Progressive: Comparisons and results
4.1 The event or activity progressive: Analysis (§3.1)
4.2 The habitual nonbounded progressive: Analysis (§3.3)
4.3 The single occasion repetitive progressive: Analysis (§3.4)
4.4 The futurate progressive: Analysis (§3.5)
4.5 The nonbounded stative progressive: Analysis (§3.6)
4.6 WILL be V-ing progressive: Analysis (§3.11)
4.7 The modal progressive: Analysis
4.7 The extended-now progressive: Analysis (§3.14)
4.8 The attitudinal progressive: Analysis (§3.15)
5. Conclusion
References
Cross-variety diachronic drifts and ephemeral regional contrasts
1. Introduction
2. BrE vs AmE contrasts are ephemeral: Regional comparison in the Brown family at three diachronic sampling points
3. Some core modals are on the decline, but the category remains robust: Diachronic trends in the extended Brown family
4. Obsolescence and emergence in a volatile system: The semi-modals in the extended Brown family
5. Conclusion: Time trumps region, and genre remains as the most important source of statistical noise.
References
Appendix: Tests for statistical significance - log likelihood values
Passives of so-called 'ditransitives' in nineteenth century and present-day Canadian English
1. Introduction
2. Historical aspects of the passive and of double-participant verbs
2.1 Second passives
2.2 First passives
2.3 Prepositional passives
3. The corpora
4. Competing types of passives, analysis and theoretical background
4.1 Choice of verbs and characterisation of passives investigated
4.2 Active-passive relationships with double-participant verbs
4.3 Functional analyses of transitive verbs with respect to passivisation
4.4 The interplay of passivisation and NP-extraction
5. Results
5.1 Passives in 19th century versus Present-day CanE
5.2 Passives in the Strathy corpus: Using a broader database
5.3 The verbs bring and deny
6. Analysis of major patterns of passivisation and their restrictions
7. Conclusion
References
Dual adverbs in Australian English
1. Introduction
2. Previous corpus-based research on variation in dual adverbs
3. Methodology
3.1 Data sources for this study
3.2 Selection of dual adverbs for this study
3.3 Analysis of contexts of discourse and syntax
4. Contextual distribution of zero and -ly forms of adverbs in current AusE
4.1 Preliminary analysis: Distribution of dual adverbs in spoken and written discourse
4.2 Syntactic contexts of occurrence for dual adverbs in current AusE and their semantics
4.2.1 Bad/badly
4.2.2 Close/closely
4.2.3 High/highly
4.2.4 Quick, slow
4.3 Summary of 20th century AusE usage of five dual adverbs
5. Distribution of dual adverbs in earlier AusE
6. Distribution of dual adverbs in 19th and 20th century BrE
6.1 Dual adverbs in 19th century BrE narrative and current affairs texts
6.2 Dual adverbs in 20th century BrE: Data from ICE-GB
7. Conclusion
References
The evolution of epistemic marking in West Australian English
1. Introduction
2. Background
2. Data and method
2.1 Data
2.2 Coding
4.2 The grammaticalisation of AusE think: Empirical evidence
3.1 Overall distribution
4. Discussion and conclusions
References
May and might in nineteenth-century Irish English and English English*
1. Introduction
2. Historical development of past time reference with may and might
2.1 Objective possibility
2.2 Subjective possibility
3. Sources
4. Results
4.1 Objective possibility
4.1.1 -P/past -remote
4.1.2 -P/past +remote
4.1.3 +P/past -remote
4.1.4 +P/past +remote
4.2 Subjective possibility
4.2.1 -M/past -P/past -remote
4.2.2 -M/past -P/past +remote
4.2.3 -M/past +P/past -remote
4.2.4 +M/past +P/past -remote
5. Discussion
6. Conclusion
References
The present perfect and the preterite in Australian English
1. Introduction
2. Variation and change in the English PP and SP
3. Data
4. The variable rule analysis
5. Discussion and conclusion
References
Appendix
Part 2. Outer circle Englishes
Recent diachronic change in the progressive in Philippine English
1. Introduction
2. The progressive aspect
3. Previous studies of the progressive
4. The present study
5. Regional and stylistic distribution
6. Progressive forms
6.1 Progressive VPs
6.2 Progressive passives
7. Special uses
7.1 The futurate progressive
7.2 The 'future as a matter-of-course' progressive
7.3 The habitual always progressive
7.4 The interpretive progressive
8. Contracted forms
9. Stative verbs
10. Conclusion
Acknowledgement
References
Linguistic change in a multilingual setting
1. Introduction
2. The quotative system
2.1 Quotatives in native-speaker Englishes: A diachronic perspective
2.2 Quotatives in native-speaker Englishes: A synchronic view
3. Data and methods
4. Overall distribution of variants
5. Multivariate analyses and diachronic comparisons
5.1 Verbs of reporting
5.2 Zero quotatives
5.3 Verbs of mental activity and perception
5.4 Be like
5.5 Okay (fine)
6. Discussion and conclusion
References
Appendix
Patterns of regularisation in British, American and Indian English
1. Introduction
2. Irregular regularisation: AmE vs BrE
3. IndE
3.1 The position of IndE in Schneider's Dynamic Model
3.2 Some examples of (structural) nativisation
4. Research questions
5. The data
5.1 Synchronic data
5.2 Diachronic data
6. Data analysis
6.1 Synchronic data
6.1.1 General overview
6.1.2 Internal variation
6.2 Diachronic data
6.2.1 LOB, FLOB, BROWN, and FROWN
6.2.2 Kolhapur vs LOB, FLOB, BROWN and FROWN
6.2.3 ICE-GB, ICE-USA and ICE-India
6.2.4 Kolhapur, ICE-India and GloWbE
7. Accounting for the variation between ed and t forms
7.1 Frequency
7.2 Salience of change
8. Conclusion
References
An apparent time study of the progressive in Nigerian English*
1. Introduction
2. The progressive in English
3. Data and methods
4. Results
4.1 Frequency of the progressive
4.2 Frequency of extended uses of the progressive
5. General discussion and comparison with other varieties of English
References
Appendix
American influence on written Caribbean English
1. Introduction
2. The Bahamas and Trinidad and Tobago: Sociohistorical and sociolinguistic background
3. Data and method
4. Contractions
5. The be-passive
6. Relative that vs which
7. Pseudotitles
8. Conclusion
References
Cultural keywords in context
1. Introduction: Structural nativisation and linguistic acculturation
2. South Asian cultures and cultural keywords in South Asian contexts
3. Methodology
4. Results
5. Concluding remarks
References
Recent quantitative changes in the use ofmodals and quasi-modals in the Hong Kong,British and American printed press
1. Background
2. Problem
3. Methodology
4. Results and discussion
4.1 American newspapers
4.2 British newspapers
4.3 The Hong Kong newspapers
5. Summary and conclusion
References
The development of an extended time period meaning of the progressive in Black South African English*
1. Introduction
2. Methodology
2.1 Data
2.2 Analysis
2.3 Framework for the classification of stative progressive meanings
3. Results
4. Discussion
References
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