Regional variation of the mandative subjunctive has come to light during the twentieth century, with corpus-based research showing it to be standard usage in American English whereas its currency in British English was limited. This research reviews the use of the mandative in spoken data from six ICE-corpora, to show marked regional differences among both settler and indigenized varieties of English. While its currency in spoken data from New Zealand is relatively low, it is on a par with written usage in Australian English, as well as Singaporean and Philippine English. However spoken instances of the mandative are typically found in public and institutional dialogue/monologue, rather than private conversation, so that it cannot be said to have become vernacularised.
2023. Philippine English and Global Englishes-inspired grammar teaching. Asian Englishes► pp. 1 ff.
Deuber, Dagmar, Stephanie Hackert, Eva Canan Hänsel, Alexander Laube, Mahyar Hejrani & Catherine Laliberté
2022. The Norm Orientation of English in the Caribbean. American Speech 97:3 ► pp. 265 ff.
La Peruta, Roberta
2022. Using VADIS to weigh competing epicentral influence. World Englishes 41:3 ► pp. 400 ff.
Kastronic, Laura & Shana Poplack
2021. Be that as it may: The Unremarkable Trajectory of the English Subjunctive in North American Speech. Language Variation and Change 33:1 ► pp. 107 ff.
BERG, THOMAS, TIM ZINGLER & ARNE LOHMANN
2020. The range of linguistic units: Distance effects in English mandative subjunctive constructions. Journal of Linguistics 56:2 ► pp. 231 ff.
Deshors, Sandra C. & Stefan Th. Gries
2020. Mandative subjunctive versus should in world Englishes: a new take on an old alternation. Corpora 15:2 ► pp. 213 ff.
2014. The Survival of the Subjunctive in Australian English: Ossification, Indexicality and Stance. Australian Journal of Linguistics 34:4 ► pp. 486 ff.
Peters, Pam
2008. International English and its construction. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 31:3 ► pp. 35.1 ff.
Peters, Pam
2008. International English and its construction. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 31:3 ► pp. 35.1 ff.
Peters, Pam
2019. Norms and Standards in World Englishes. In The Cambridge Handbook of World Englishes, ► pp. 587 ff.
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