nam a22 c 4500 veaw.g43/415008254 nljbp 241011124013.0 cr ||||||||||| 131217s2012 ne |||||||||||||||||eng|d 2011044820 9789027274946 (e-Book) nljbp eng nljbp nljbp PE2751 427 23 CF/2AB bicssc LAN009000 bisacsh Mapping Unity and Diversity World-Wide Corpus-Based Studies of New Englishes Edited by Marianne Hundt and Ulrike Gut Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012 ©2012 1 online resource (xiv, 294 pp.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Varieties of English Around the World 0172-7362 G43 Includes bibliographical references and index. International Corpus of English -- Introduction / Marianne Hundt and Ulrike Gut -- “Off with their heads” / Gerold Schneider and Marianne Hundt -- Modals and quasi-modals in New Englishes / Peter Collins and Xinyue Yao -- The diverging need (to)’s of Asian Englishes / Johan van der Auwera, Dirk Noël and Astrid De Wit -- Will and would in selected New Englishes / Dagmar Deuber, Carolin Biewer, Stephanie Hackert and Michaela Hilbert -- Progressives in Maltese English / Michaela Hilbert and Manfred G. Krug -- Mapping unity and diversity in South Asian English lexicogrammar / Marco Schilk, Tobias Bernaisch and Joybrato Mukherjee -- Particle verbs across first and second language varieties of English / Lena Zipp and Tobias Bernaisch -- Particle verbs in African Englishes / Gerald Nelson and Ren Hongtao -- Relatives worldwide / Ulrike Gut and Lilian Coronel -- Change from to-infinitive to bare infinitive in specificational cleft sentences / Christian Mair and Claudia Winkle -- “And they were all like ‘What’s going on?’” / Nicole Höhn 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. Provided by publisher. English linguistics Germanic linguistics Sociolinguistics and Dialectology Theoretical linguistics Hundt, Marianne editor Gut, Ulrike editor Hardbound version: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012 9789027249036 DOI https://doi.org/10.1075/veaw.g43 JB e-Platform https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027274946