Samantha Laporte

List of John Benjamins publications for which Samantha Laporte plays a role.

Titles

Subjects Corpus linguistics | English linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics

Rethinking Linguistic Creativity in Non-native Englishes

Edited by Sandra C. Deshors, Sandra Götz and Samantha Laporte

[Benjamins Current Topics, 98] 2018. vi, 223 pp.
Subjects Corpus linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Theoretical linguistics

Linguistic Innovations: Rethinking linguistic creativity in non-native Englishes

Edited by Sandra C. Deshors, Sandra Götz and Samantha Laporte

Special issue of International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 2:2 (2016) v, 222 pp.
Subjects Applied linguistics | Corpus linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching

Articles

This corpus-based study tests the Principle of No Synonymy across levels of abstraction by examining the syntactic realizations of subject extraposition (e.g., it is important to, it seems that), and by investigating at which level(s) of formal description a difference in form also entails a… read more
Deshors, Sandra C., Sandra Götz and Samantha Laporte 2018 Linguistic innovations in EFL and ESL: Rethinking the linguistic creativity of non-native English speakersRethinking Linguistic Creativity in Non-native Englishes, Deshors, Sandra C., Sandra Götz and Samantha Laporte (eds.), pp. 1–20 | Article
Deshors, Sandra C., Sandra Götz and Samantha Laporte 2016 Linguistic innovations in EFL and ESL: Rethinking the linguistic creativity of non-native English speakersLinguistic Innovations: Rethinking linguistic creativity in non-native Englishes, Deshors, Sandra C., Sandra Götz and Samantha Laporte (eds.), pp. 131–150 | Article
The classification of English as a native (ENL), second (ESL) and foreign (EFL) language is traditionally mapped onto Kachru’s (1985) Inner, Outer and Expanding circles, respectively. This paper addresses the divide upheld between these different varietal types. We explore the preposition into… read more
A paradigm gap has long separated the fields of World Englishes and Learner Englishes: they have mainly been dealt with separately and very little consideration has been given to the features that they might share. Recently, however, Nesselhauf (2009) has highlighted that some features thought to… read more