Contemporary Indian English

Name: Contemporary Indian English | Variation and change
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Variation and change

Andreas Sedlatschek(Autor*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 15. April 2009

XIX, 363 Seiten

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Contemporary Indian English
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Map
Abbreviations
List of figures and tables
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Theoretical, methodological and descriptive framework
2.1 Background information: English in India - spread and current situation
2.1.1 The transplantation of English to India: 1579-1757
2.1.2 English becomes stabilized: 1757-1813
2.1.3 English takes root: 1813-1857
2.1.4 From 'English in India' to IndE: 1857-1947
2.1.5 The institutionalization of English after 1947
2.2 Previous descriptions of IndE
2.2.1 Describing IndE from within
2.2.2 Describing IndE in an international context
2.2.3 IndE - caught between the norms: A look at Indian usage handbooks
2.2.4 Previous corpus-based descriptions of IndE
2.2.5 Conclusion
2.3 Methodological and descriptive framework
2.3.1 Database: Primary Corpus
2.3.2 Database: Online corpora
2.3.3 Descriptive framework
Chapter 3. Vocabulary
3.1 Loanwords
3.1.1 The distribution of loanwords in the Primary Corpus
3.1.2 The use of loanwords in IndE press reviews
3.1.3 The use of loanwords outside the Press Reviews section
3.1.4 More variation: A look at South Asia
3.1.5 Case study: The high numerals lakh and crore
3.2 More different words and meanings? In search of lexical Indianisms
3.2.1 In search of neologisms
3.2.2 From words to word formation
3.2.3 A note on meaning change
3.3 Lexical style variation
3.3.1 Function words: among/amongst, while/whilst, amid/amidst, until/till
3.3.2 Contractions
3.3.3 Even more variability? Near-but-not-identical words
3.4 Americanisms and Briticisms in the IndE lexicon
3.5 Chapter summary
Chapter 4. Lexicosyntax
4.1 Particle verbs: Verbs combining with up, down, out, away, and off
4.1.1 The distribution of unrecorded particle verbs in the Primary Corpus
4.1.2 Pinpointing the status of unrecorded verb-particle combinations
4.2 More variation in the use of particle verbs
4.2.1 Distribution in the Primary Corpus
4.2.2 Use of 'different' particles
4.2.3 Use of 'additional' particles
4.2.4 'No' particles
4.3.6 The to-infinitive vs. N-ing divide
4.3.5 Want
4.3.4 Protest
4.3.3 Cater
4.3.2 Contest
4.3.1 Enjoy
4.4 Chapter summary
Chapter 5. Morphosyntax and grammar at the sentence level
5.1 Noun phrase: Articles
5.1.1 Quantitative analysis
5.1.2 Qualitative investigations: Article usage in the student essays
5.1.2.1 Zero article for definite article
5.1.2.2 Zero article for indefinite article
5.1.2.3 Definite article for zero article
5.1.2.4 Indefinite article for zero article
5.1.2.5 Exchange of surface articles
5.1.3 Summary
5.2 Noun phrase: Countability and number
5.2.1 Quantitative analysis
5.2.2 Qualitative investigations
5.2.3 Summary
5.3 Nouns, pronouns and verbs: Concord with collective nouns
5.3.1 Quantitative analysis
5.3.1.1 Verbal concord
5.3.1.2 Pronominal concord
5.3.2 Case study: Police
5.3.3 Summary
5.4 Verb phrase: The past perfect
5.4.1 Quantitative analysis
5.4.2 Qualitative investigations
5.4.3 Summary
5.5 More variation in tense and aspect? Two observations
5.5.1 Since
5.5.2 Adverbials of the past
5.6 Verb phrase: The mandative subjunctive
5.7 Sentence level: Inversion in direct and embedded wh-questions
5.7.1 Direct wh-questions
5.7.2 Embedded wh-questions
5.8 More variation at the sentence level? Only and itself as focus elements
5.9 Chapter summary
Chapter 6. Conclusion
References
Appendices
Appendix 2
Appendix 3
Appendix 4
Appendix 5
Index
The series Varieties of English Around the World

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