The Syntax of Spoken Indian English
Claudia Lange
[Varieties of English Around the World, G45] 2012. xv, 265 pp.
Claudia Lange
List of John Benjamins publications for which Claudia Lange plays a role.
Title
Subjects English linguistics | Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2021. Review of Esimaje, Gut & Antia (2019): Corpus Linguistics and African Englishes. English World-Wide 42:1, pp. 111–115
Review
2018. "This hair-style called as 'duck tail'": The 'intrusive as' -construction in South Asian varieties of English and Learner Englishes. Rethinking Linguistic Creativity in Non-native Englishes, Deshors, Sandra C., Sandra Götz and Samantha Laporte (eds.), pp. 21–46
This paper focuses on the ‘intrusive as’-construction in complex-transitive verbcomplementation which was so far only attested for Indian English. Our datashow that ‘intrusive as’ is a common feature in South Asian Englishes generally, albeit to different degrees. Comparing the South Asian data… read more | Article
2016. “This hair-style called as ‘duck tail’”: The ‘intrusive as’-construction in South Asian varieties of English and Learner Englishes. Linguistic Innovations: Rethinking linguistic creativity in non-native Englishes, Deshors, Sandra C., Sandra Götz and Samantha Laporte (eds.), pp. 151–176
This paper focuses on the ‘intrusive as’-construction in complex-transitive verb complementation which was so far only attested for Indian English. Our data show that ‘intrusive as’ is a common feature in South Asian Englishes generally, albeit to different degrees. Comparing the South Asian data… read more | Article
2009. “Where’s the party yaar!”: Discourse particles in Indian English. World Englishes – Problems, Properties and Prospects: Selected papers from the 13th IAWE conference, Hoffmann, Thomas and Lucia Siebers (eds.), pp. 207–226
For some reason, Indian English (IndE) discourse particles have not been as popular with the World Englishes scientific community as their counterparts in Singapore English. Whereas the whole range of discourse particles in colloquial Singapore English has already been treated quite exhaustively,… read more | Article
2008. 'Tis he, 'tis she, 'tis me, 'tis – I don't know who … cleft and identificational constructions in 16th to 18th century English plays. English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006, Gotti, Maurizio, Marina Dossena and Richard Dury (eds.), pp. 203–221
It is generally assumed that the construction It is me emerged in the 16th century as the more colloquial alternative to It is I. In this paper, we focus on the structure and distribution of two constructions featuring It is I/me, namely cleft constructions (ClCs) and identificational copular… read more | Article
2007. Focus marking in Indian English. English World-Wide 28:1, pp. 89–118
This paper investigates the use of only and itself in Indian English, drawing on data from the Indian subcorpus of the International Corpus of English (ICE-India). In all varieties of English, only is used as an exclusive focus particle and itself as a reflexive pronoun and intensifier. Indian… read more | Article