Focus marking in Indian English (IndE) with adverbs such as only, also, and too has been investigated recently by several authors. Based on the Indian and British sections of the International Corpus of English, this article argues that usage of also in IndE differs significantly from British English (BrE). Also often follows its focus immediately, has developed a presentational use, and is often used in negative contexts, corresponding to either. All these innovations are shown to be more frequent in spoken and informal than in written and formal language, respectively. Finally, evidence for substrate influence from Indo-European and Dravidian languages is presented.
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Mehl, Seth
2021. What we talk about when we talk about corpus frequency: The example of polysemous verbs with light and concrete senses. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 17:1 ► pp. 223 ff.
2021. Intensifier Usage in Nigerian English: A Corpus-Based Approach. Corpus Pragmatics 5:3 ► pp. 335 ff.
Lange, Claudia
2019. English in South Asia. In The Cambridge Handbook of World Englishes, ► pp. 236 ff.
Parviainen, Hanna & Robert Fuchs
2019. ‘I don’t get time only’: an apparent-time investigation of clause-final focus particles in Asian Englishes. Asian Englishes 21:3 ► pp. 285 ff.
Ziegeler, Debra, Eric Mélac & Volker Gast
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Fuchs, Robert
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Fuchs, Robert
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Fuchs, Robert
2016. Speech Rhythm in Indian English and British English. In Speech Rhythm in Varieties of English [Prosody, Phonology and Phonetics, ], ► pp. 113 ff.
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