Article published in:
The Evolution of Englishes: The Dynamic Model and beyondEdited by Sarah Buschfeld, Thomas Hoffmann, Magnus Huber and Alexander Kautzsch
[Varieties of English Around the World G49] 2014
► pp. 386–400
Non-standard or new standards or errors?
The use of inflectional marking for present and past tenses in English as an Asian lingua franca
Andy Kirkpatrick | Griffith University, Australia
Sophiaan Subhan | Griffith University, Australia
Using data of speakers whose first language is a variety of Malay, a language that does not mark for tense, this article will investigate the hypothesis that speakers of second language (L2) varieties of English whose first languages (L1s) do not mark for tense, will use tense marking less frequently than those speakers of L2 varieties of English whose L2s do mark for tense. The article will also review other possible motivations for the presence of non-standard forms in the English, bearing in mind Thomason’s caution “that multiple causes are responsible for a particular change” (2010: 31). It is hoped that the study will contribute to our knowledge of contact-induced change in English worldwide (Schneider 2007, 2012).
Keywords: English as a Lingua Franca, formality, register, tense marking, universals or substrate influence
Published online: 12 September 2014
https://doi.org/10.1075/veaw.g49.22kir
https://doi.org/10.1075/veaw.g49.22kir
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