Structural Nativization in Indian English Lexicogrammar - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Structural Nativization in Indian English Lexicogrammar write by Marco Schilk. This book was released on 2011. Structural Nativization in Indian English Lexicogrammar available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book contains the first in-depth corpus-based description of structural nativization at the lexis-grammar interface in Indian English, the largest institutionalized second-language variety of English world-wide. For a set of three ditransitive verbs give, send and offer collocational patterns, verb-complementational preferences and correlations between collocational and verb-complementational routines are described. The present study is based on the comparison of the Indian and the British components of the International Corpus of English as well as a 100-million-word web-derived corpus of acrolectal Indian newspaper language and corresponding parts of the British National Corpus. The present corpus-based 'thick description' of lexicogrammatical routines provides new perspectives on the emergence of new routines and patternings in Indian English and is conceptually and methodologically relevant for research into varieties of English worldwide.
The Lexis and Lexicogrammar of Sri Lankan English
The Lexis and Lexicogrammar of Sri Lankan English - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lexis and Lexicogrammar of Sri Lankan English write by Tobias Bernaisch. This book was released on 2015-09-15. The Lexis and Lexicogrammar of Sri Lankan English available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers the first in-depth corpus-based description of written Sri Lankan English. In comparison to British and Indian English, lexical and lexicogrammatical features of Sri Lankan English are analysed in a complex corpus environment comprising data from the respective components of the International Corpus of English, newspapers and online sources to explore the status of Sri Lankan English as a variety in its own right. The evolution of Sri Lankan English is depicted against the background of historical as well as sociolinguistic considerations and allows deriving a fine-grained model of the emergence of distinctive structural profiles of postcolonial Englishes developing in a multitude of norm orientations. This book is highly relevant to readers interested in Sri Lankan English and South Asian Englishes. It also offers more general sociolinguistic perspectives on the dynamics of postcolonial Englishes world-wide and on the inextricable link between language and identity.
The Syntax of Spoken Indian English
The Syntax of Spoken Indian English - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Syntax of Spoken Indian English write by Claudia Lange. This book was released on 2012-11-06. The Syntax of Spoken Indian English available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers an in-depth analysis of several features of spoken Indian English that are generally considered as ‘typical’, but have never before been studied empirically. Drawing on authentic spoken data from the International Corpus of English, Indian component, the book focuses on the domain of discourse organization and examines the form, function and distribution of invariant tags such as isn’t it and no/na, non-initial existential there, focus markers only and itself, topicalization and left-dislocation. By focusing on multilingual speakers’ interactions, the study demonstrates conclusively that spoken Indian English bears all the hallmarks of a vibrant contact language, testifying to a pan-South Asian ‘grammar of culture’ which becomes apparent in contact-induced language change in spoken Indian English. The book will be highly relevant for anyone interested in postcolonial varieties of English, contact linguistics, standardization, and discourse-pragmatic sentence structure.
Changing Structures
Changing Structures - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Changing Structures write by Mark Kaunisto. This book was released on 2018-05-15. Changing Structures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a collection of eleven research articles which altogether serve as a contribution to the study of verb complementation and other constructions, an area of investigation which bridges observations on the spectrum of lexico-grammar, syntax, and semantics. In terms of methodological approaches and the types of linguistic patterns examined, the chapters cast light on the subject from a variety of perspectives, and the volume is structured in a way that groups the various perspectives under three main themes according to their main focus and/or methodological approaches, namely: the semantic and functional descriptions of constructions; the investigation into the distribution of complementation patterns; and the study of innovative patterns in ESL contexts and languages other than English. All chapters in this volume employ data from large electronic corpora where possible – the BNC, COCA, COHA, GloWbE, NOW, and newly compiled corpora representing regional varieties of English.
Researching Chinese English: the State of the Art
Researching Chinese English: the State of the Art - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Researching Chinese English: the State of the Art write by Zhichang Xu. This book was released on 2017-05-01. Researching Chinese English: the State of the Art available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume offers a timely collection of original research papers on the various features and issues surrounding Chinese English, one of the varieties in World Englishes with a large and increasing number of learners and users. The five sections entitled ‘Researching Chinese English Pronunciation’, ‘Researching Chinese English Lexis, Grammar and Pragmatics’, ‘Researching Perceptions, Attitudes and Reactions towards Chinese English’, ‘Researching Cultural Conceptualizations and Identities in Chinese English’, and ‘Chinese Scholarship on Chinese English’, bring together three generations of Chinese and overseas researchers, both established and emerging, who offer lively dialogues on the current research, development and future of Chinese English. The introductory chapter by the editors on the state-of-the-art of researching Chinese English, and a concluding chapter by a leading researcher in World Englishes on the future directions for researching Chinese English make this an essential title for those who wish to gain insights on Chinese English.
