基本説明
The contributions in this volume exemplify novel approaches, e.g. the contribution of syntactic corpus annotation (tagging and parsing) to the description of New English structures; the use (and limitations) of web-derived data as an additional source of information; and the possibility to complement corpus data with evidence from sociolingustic fieldwork.
Full Description
This volume presents a collection of in-depth cross-varietal studies on a broad spectrum of grammatical features in English varieties spoken all over the world. The contributions explore the structural unity and diversity of New Englishes and thus investigate central aspects of dialect evolution and language change. Moreover, this volume offers new insights into the question as to what constrains new dialect formation, and examines universal trends across a wide range of contact situations. The contributions in this volume further study the possibilities and limitations of quantitative and qualitative corpus analyses in comparative studies of New Englishes and exemplify novel approaches, e.g. the contribution of syntactic corpus annotation (tagging and parsing) to the description of New English structures; the use (and limitations) of web-derived data as an additional source of information; and the possibility to complement corpus data with evidence from sociolinguistic fieldwork.
Contents
1. International Corpus of English: List of corpora; 2. Introduction: Mapping unity and diversity in New Englishes (by Hundt, Marianne); 3. "Off with their heads": Profiling TAM in ICE corpora (by Schneider, Gerold); 4. Modals and quasi-modals in New Englishes (by Collins, Peter); 5. The diverging need (to)'s of Asian Englishes (by Auwera, Johan van der); 6. Will and would in selected New Englishes: General and variety-specific tendencies (by Deuber, Dagmar); 7. Progressives in Maltese English: A comparison with spoken and written text types of British and American English (by Hilbert, Michaela); 8. Mapping unity and diversity in South Asian English lexicogrammar: Verb-complementational preferences across varieties (by Schilk, Marco); 9. Particle verbs across first and second language varieties of English (by Zipp, Lena); 10. Particle verbs in African Englishes: Nativization and innovation (by Nelson, Gerald); 11. Relatives worldwide (by Gut, Ulrike); 12. Change from to-infinitive to bare infinitive in specificational cleft sentences: Data from World Englishes (by Mair, Christian); 13. "And they were all like 'What's going on?'": New quotatives in Jamaican and Irish English (by Hohn, Nicole); 14. Index
