Drawing on naturalistic corpus data, this study is an exercise in establishing typological profiles of learner varieties (as sampled in the International Corpus of Learner English) vis-à-vis indigenized L2 varieties of English (as represented in the International Corpus of English), though we also include in our dataset, for benchmarking purposes, a number of European languages as well as three stylistic varieties drawn from the British National Corpus. Our research is informed by two typological parameters widely used in the crosslinguistic classification of languages: overt grammatical analyticity, which we operationalize as the text frequency of free grammatical markers, and overt grammatical syntheticity, which we define as the text frequency of bound grammatical markers. The principal insight afforded by this study is that learner Englishes and indigenized L2 varieties of English have strikingly different typological profiles, a finding which we trace back to a number of grammatical markers whose function and frequency differs between the two groups. We also present a methodology to explore if learner Englishes are sensitive to typological properties of their substrate languages, and find that this is not generally the case.
2021. Typological Profiling of English, Spanish, German and Slovak: A Corpus-Based Approach. Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis 72:2 ► pp. 342 ff.
Hundt, Marianne
2021. On models and modelling. World Englishes 40:3 ► pp. 298 ff.
Danae Perez, Marianne Hundt, Johannes Kabatek & Daniel Schreier
2021. English and Spanish,
Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt
2021. Uncovering the Big Picture. In English and Spanish, ► pp. 184 ff.
Mukherjee, Joybrato & Tobias Bernaisch
2020. Corpus Linguistics and Asian Englishes. In The Handbook of Asian Englishes, ► pp. 741 ff.
Bohmann, Axel
2019. Variation in English Worldwide,
Buschfeld, Sarah
2019. Language Acquisition and World Englishes. In The Cambridge Handbook of World Englishes, ► pp. 559 ff.
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