Tense and Aspect in Second Language Acquisition and Learner Corpus Research
Edited by Robert Fuchs and Valentin Werner
[Benjamins Current Topics, 108] 2020. v, 161 pp.
Robert Fuchs
List of John Benjamins publications for which Robert Fuchs plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Corpus linguistics | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Tense and aspect in Second Language Acquisition and Learner Corpus Research
Edited by Robert Fuchs and Valentin Werner
Special issue of International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 4:2 (2018) v, 158 pp.
Subjects Applied linguistics | Corpus linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching
2023 Analysing the speech rhythm of New Englishes: A guide to researchers and a case study on Pakistani, Philippine, Nigerian, and British English New Englishes, New Methods, Wilson, Guyanne and Michael Westphal (eds.), pp. 132–155 | Chapter
Most New Englishes are classified as syllable-timed and many L1 varieties of English as stress-timed. However, much empirical work on varieties of English and other languages has shown that a categorical distinction between discrete rhythm classes is not commensurate with the empirical evidence.… read more
2021 Rhotics in Standard Scottish English English World-Wide 42:2, pp. 121–144 | Article
The present study investigates rhotics in Standard Scottish English (SSE). Drawing on an auditory analysis of formal speeches given in the Scottish parliament by 49 speakers (members of parliament and the general public), it examines whether an underlying rhotic standard exists for SSE speakers… read more
2020 Tense and aspect in Second Language Acquisition and learner corpus research Tense and Aspect in Second Language Acquisition and Learner Corpus Research, Fuchs, Robert and Valentin Werner (eds.), pp. 1–21 | Chapter
2020 The use of stative progressives by school-age learners of English and the importance of the variable context: Myth vs. (corpus) reality Tense and Aspect in Second Language Acquisition and Learner Corpus Research, Fuchs, Robert and Valentin Werner (eds.), pp. 53–82 | Chapter
Previous studies indicate that even Advanced learners of English as a Foreign Language and speakers of English as a Second Language extend the progressive to stative verbs, contrary to the predictions of the Aspect Hypothesis (AH). We test this claim based on a corpus of beginning and lower… read more
2019 Chapter 1.2. Corpus-based research on English in Africa: A practical introduction Corpus Linguistics and African Englishes, Esimaje, Alexandra U., Ulrike Gut and Bassey E. Antia (eds.), pp. 37–70 | Chapter
This chapter provides linguists and students not yet familiar with corpus-based research on varieties of English in Africa with a practical introduction to the field. After explaining the rationale and aims of corpus-based research on varieties of English (in Africa), we introduce methods, tools… read more
2019 Intergroup dynamics and variation in postcolonial ESL varieties: A preliminary view of Namibian English vowel systems English World-Wide 40:2, pp. 144–169 | Article
L1 background is often described as the main factor accounting for variation in postcolonial ESL varieties. However, recent studies (e.g. Mesthrie 2009, 2017) suggest that variation patterns in ESL varieties can in some cases also be linked to identity factors rooted in local patterns of… read more
2018 The use of stative progressives by school-age learners of English and the importance of the variable context: Myth vs. (corpus) reality Tense and aspect in Second Language Acquisition and Learner Corpus Research, Fuchs, Robert and Valentin Werner (eds.), pp. 195–224 | Article
Previous studies indicate that even advanced learners of English as a Foreign Language and speakers of English as a Second Language extend the progressive to stative verbs, contrary to the predictions of the Aspect Hypothesis (AH). We test this claim based on a corpus of beginning and lower… read more
2018 Tense and aspect in Second Language Acquisition and learner corpus research: Introduction to the special issue Tense and aspect in Second Language Acquisition and Learner Corpus Research, Fuchs, Robert and Valentin Werner (eds.), pp. 143–163 | Review article
2017 Do women (still) use more intensifiers than men? Recent change in the sociolinguistics of intensifiers in British English Compiling and analysing the Spoken British National Corpus 2014, McEnery, Tony, Robbie Love and Vaclav Brezina (eds.), pp. 345–374 | Article
This study investigates how age, gender, social class and dialect influence how frequently speakers of British English use intensifiers (e.g. very) in private conversations and whether this has changed over the last two decades. With data drawn from over 600 speakers and 4M words included in the… read more
2015 A reply English World-Wide 36:1, pp. 45–47 | Commentary
A reply to the commentaries by Christian Mair (DOI:10.1075/eww.36.1.02mai), Joybrato Mukherjee (DOI:10.1075/eww.36.1.02muk), Gerald Nelson (DOI:10.1075/eww.36.1.02nel), and Pam Peters (DOI:10.1075/eww.36.1.02pet). read more
2015 Expanding horizons in the study of World Englishes with the 1.9 billion word Global Web-based English Corpus (GloWbE) English World-Wide 36:1, pp. 1–28 | Article
In this paper, we provide an overview of the new GloWbE Corpus — the Corpus of Global Web-based English. GloWbE is based on 1.9 billion words in 1.8 million web pages from 20 different English-speaking countries. Approximately 60 percent of the corpus comes from informal blogs, and the rest from a… read more
2015 An apparent time study of the progressive in Nigerian English Grammatical Change in English World-Wide, Collins, Peter (ed.), pp. 373–388 | Article
This study explores the use of the progressive in Nigerian English in apparent time and investigates the influence of the variables age, gender, ethnic group and text category on its rate of use. Several regression analyses were carried out on a total of 4,552 progressive constructions drawn from… read more
2013 “We just don’t even know”: The usage of the pragmatic focus particles even and still in Nigerian English English World-Wide 34:2, pp. 123–145 | Article
This study investigates the usage of the pragmatic focus particles even and still in Nigerian English (NigE). A comparison of ICE-Nigeria and ICE-GB showed diverging frequencies of both particles across different registers between the two varieties of English and a significantly higher overall… read more
2012 Focus marking and semantic transfer in Indian English: The case of also English World-Wide 33:1, pp. 27–53 | Article
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… read more