The present paper investigates the strength of verb-construction associations across various New Englishes on the basis of comparable corpora. In contrast to previous studies into verb complementation in New Englishes, we start off from three basic constructions in English — the intransitive, the monotransitive and the ditransitive construction — and analyse the co-occurrences of the three constructions and a wide range of verbs. The present study is based on the Hong Kong, the Indian, and the Singapore components of the International Corpus of English (ICE) because the three varieties represent markedly different stages in the process of the evolution of New Englishes with British English as the historical input variety. Our quantitative analysis includes multiple distinctive collexeme analyses for the different varieties. The results show, inter alia, that, firstly, processes of structural nativisation of New Englishes can also be observed at the level of verb-construction associations, which can be subsumed under the notion of “collostructional nativisation”, and that, secondly, there are identifiable intervarietal differences between British English and New Englishes as well as between individual New Englishes. In general, there is a correlation between the evolutionary stage of a New English variety and its collostructional nativisation: The more advanced a New English variety is in the developmental cycle, the more dissimilar its collostructional preferences are to British English.
2017. Zooming in on Verbs in the Progressive: A Collostructional and Correspondence Analysis Approach. Journal of English Linguistics 45:3 ► pp. 260 ff.
2018. Mapping out particle placement in Englishes around the world: A study in comparative sociolinguistic analysis. Language Variation and Change 30:3 ► pp. 385 ff.
Gries, Stefan Th., Tobias Bernaisch & Benedikt Heller
2015. EFL and/vs. ESL?. International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 1:1 ► pp. 130 ff.
Götz, Sandra
2017. Non-Canonical Syntax in South Asian Varieties of English: A Corpus-Based Pilot Study on Fronting. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 65:3 ► pp. 265 ff.
Hilpert, Martin
2022. Review of Laporte, Samantha. 2021. Corpora, Constructions, New Englishes. A Constructional and Variationist Approach to Verb Patterning. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. ISBN: 978-9-027-20850-7. https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.100. Research in Corpus Linguistics 10:2 ► pp. 147 ff.
2019. Debra Ziegeler, Converging grammars: Constructions in Singapore English (Language Contact and Bilingualism 11). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2015. Pp. xiv + 294. ISBN 9781614514091 (hardback).. English Language and Linguistics 23:1 ► pp. 215 ff.
Hoffmann, Thomas
2019. English Comparative Correlatives,
Hoffmann, Thomas
2021. The Cognitive Foundation of Post-colonial Englishes,
2012. Not wrong, yet not quite right: Spanish ESL students' use of gerundial and infinitival complementation. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 22:2 ► pp. 225 ff.
Mehl, Seth
2018. Corpus onomasiology in world Englishes and the concrete verbs make and give. World Englishes 37:2 ► pp. 185 ff.
Morin, Cameron, Guillaume Desagulier & Jack Grieve
Muhammad, Umar Aliyu, Ngee Thai Yap, Mei Yuit Chan & Bee Eng Wong
2016. Identification of Nigerian English idioms: A methodological perspective. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies 34:4 ► pp. 279 ff.
Mukherjee, Joybrato & Tobias Bernaisch
2020. Corpus Linguistics and Asian Englishes. In The Handbook of Asian Englishes, ► pp. 741 ff.
Mukherjee, Joybrato & Marco Schilk
2012. Exploring variation and change in New Englishes: Looking into the International Corpus of English (ICE) and beyond. In The Oxford Handbook of the History of English, ► pp. 189 ff.
PARVIAINEN, HANNA
2016. The invariant tag isn't it in Asian Englishes. World Englishes 35:1 ► pp. 98 ff.
2020. Applying Collocation Analysis to Chinese Discourse: A Case Study of Causal Connectives. Lingua sinica 6:1 ► pp. 1 ff.
Xia, Lixin, Yun Xia & Qian Li
2019. Colligational Patterns in China English: The Case of the Verbs of Communication. In Chinese Computational Linguistics [Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 11856], ► pp. 3 ff.
This list is based on CrossRef data as of 29 march 2024. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers.
Any errors therein should be reported to them.