Educated Fiji English

Name: Educated Fiji English | Lexico-grammar and variety status
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Lexico-grammar and variety status

Lena Zipp(Autor*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 27. Februar 2014

XVII, 230 Seiten

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Educated Fiji English
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Map
Abbreviations
List of tables
List of figures
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction
1.1 Aims and scope
1.2 Outline of chapters
Chapter 2. Fiji: History and sociolinguistic setting
2.1 Fiji's colonial and post-colonial history
2.2 Fiji's sociolinguistic background
2.3 English in Fiji
Chapter 3. Theory, methodology and data
3.1 Theoretical background: The New Englishes paradigm
3.1.1 The status of Fiji English in Schneider's 2007 model
3.1.2 Exo- and endonormative models in Fiji: Research hypotheses
3.2 Lexico-grammar as the locus of structural nativisation
3.3 Data and method
3.3.1 Methodology and corpus design
3.3.2 The challenges of data compilation
3.4 Statistics
3.4.1 Log likelihood ratio
3.4.2 Dispersion statistics
Chapter 4. Word level: Prepositions
4.1 Word frequency
4.2 Preposition frequencies
4.2.1 Variety-specific preposition profiles
4.2.2 Adjusting the variable set: Dispersion and lexical clusters
4.2.3 Exo- and endonormative tendencies in Fiji's preposition profiles
4.2.4 Adverbial particles
4.2.5 High-frequency prepositions
4.3 Semantic effects
4.3.1 Semantics of through
4.3.2 Semantics of within
4.4 Case studies of stylistic variation
4.5 Summary
Chapter 5. Phrase level: Verb-particle combinations
5.1 Productivity and creativity in verb-particle combinations
5.2 Frequency profiles of verb-particle combinations
5.3 New particle verbs across varieties
5.3.1 Verb-particle combinations with up
5.3.2 Theory building: Semantic redundancy
5.3.3 Verb-particle combinations with out
5.3.4 Theory building: Combinations with Latinate verbs
5.3.5 Verb-particle combinations with down
5.3.6 Verb-particle combinations with off
5.3.7 Verb-particle combinations with away
5.3.8 Verb-particle combinations with into
5.3.9 Verb-particle combinations with about
5.3.10 Conclusion
5.4 Summary
Chapter 6. Pattern level: Prepositions and -ing clauses
6.1 Prepositions and -ing patterns
6.2 Prepositional -ing complementation
6.2.1 The at -ing pattern
6.2.2 The from -ing pattern
6.2.2.1 Case study: prevent
6.2.3 The in -ing pattern
6.2.3.1 Case study: help
6.2.3.2 Case study: difficulty
6.2.3.3 Case study: Phrasal patterns
6.3 Adverbial -ing clauses
6.4 Summary
Chapter 7. Conclusion
7.1 Summary of results
7.2 Limits and outlook
Bibliography
Appendix A. First search query list of prepositions
Appendix B. Adjusted set of prepositional variables
Index

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