Mapping Unity and Diversity World-Wide
Corpus-Based Studies of New Englishes
1st Edition
Published on 7. March 2012
XIV, 294 pages
978-90-272-7494-6 (ISBN)
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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 language change. Moreover, this volume offers new insights into the question as to what constrains new dialect formation, and examines universal trends across a wide range of contact situations. The contributions in this volume further study the possibilities and limitations of quantitative and qualitative corpus analyses in comparative studies of New Englishes and exemplify novel approaches, e.g. the contribution of syntactic corpus annotation (tagging and parsing) to the description of New English structures; the use (and limitations) of web-derived data as an additional source of information; and the possibility to complement corpus data with evidence from sociolinguistic fieldwork.
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Content
- Intro
- 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. Conclusion
- References
- 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
- References
- Corpora
- Will and would in selected New Englishes
- 1. Introduction and previous research
- 2. New Englishes selected
- 3. Data and method
- 4. Results and discussion
- 4.1 Results and general findings
- 4.2 Trinidadian English
- 4.3 Jamaican English
- 4.4 Bahamian English
- 4.5 Fiji English
- 4.6 Indian English
- 4.7 Singapore English
- 5. Conclusion and outlook
- References
- Progressives in Maltese English
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Outline and contextualization of Maltese English
- 3. Previous research on progressives
- 4. The variable: Definition and constraints
- 5. Data
- 6. Quantitative analysis
- 6.1 Maltese and British newspaper corpora
- 6.2 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
- 3.2 Particle verbs with up
- 4. Quantitative analysis and results
- 4.1 PVUs in the ICE [W140] corpora
- 4.2 The distribution of PVUs within and across the ICE [W140] corpora
- 4.3 Formality, genres and PVUs in the ICE [W140] corpora
- 5. Qualitative analysis
- 5.1 Unrecorded PVUs across the ICE [W140] corpora
- 5.2 Additional particles in PVUs across ICE [W140] corpora
- 5.3 Innovative usages in PVUs across ICE [W140] corpora
- 6. Conclusion and outlook
- References
- Particle verbs in African Englishes
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Corpus and methodology
- 3. Analysing the data
- 4. Results and discussion
- 5. Innovative" PVs in Ugandan English
- 5.1 Widening the search
- 6. Conclusion
- Relatives worldwide
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Data and analysis
- 3. Results
- 3.1 Overall occurrence of relative clauses and relative markers
- 3.2 Types of relative clauses
- 3.3 Stylistic variability
- 4. Summary and discussion
- References
- Change from to-infinitive to bare infinitive in specificational cleft sentences
- 1. Introduction: The variable and its variants
- 2. Rapid shift to the unmarked infinitive in contemporary British and American English: Real-time evidence from the "BROWN family" and the DCPSE
- 3. Specificational clefts in ICE: Quantitative survey
- 4. Illustration of specific local usages in New Englishes
- 4.1 Syntactic complexity and the retention of to
- 4.2 All-clefts and what-clefts
- 4.3 Insertion of that after BE
- 4.4 Omission of BE.
- 5. Conclusion
- And they were all like 'What's going on?'"
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Background
- 3. Data and methods
- 4. Results and discussion
- 4.1 The factor "register"
- 4.2 The factor "collection period"
- 4.3 The factor "grammatical person of the quotative"
- 4.4 The factor "content of the quote"
- 4.5 The factor "speaker sex"
- 4.6 Multivariate analysis
- 5. Conclusion
- References
- Index
