Error, feature, (incipient) change – or something else altogether? On the role of low-frequency deviant patterns for the description of Englishes

Hundt, Marianne; Seoane, Elena; Suárez‐Gómez, Cristina

doi:10.1075/veaw.g57.03hun

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“…It is advisable to supplement evidence from synchronic corpora with historical data since patterns that are identified as instances of nativization in ESL varieties (e.g. the extension of pluralization to non-counts) may also have precursors in earlier stages of English (Hundt 2016b, Schneider et al, 2019. In other words, for the historical study of WEs, researchers not only need stratified diachronic corpora of ESL varieties to fill in the gaps but ideally also diachronic evidence on regional and nonstandard varieties of English to gauge the effect that different input varieties may have had on the development of WEs.…”

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Corpus-Based Approaches to World Englishes

Hundt¹,

Schreier²,

Schneider³

2019

The Cambridge Handbook of World Englishes

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The chapter provides an overview of the developments in synchronic and diachronic corpuslinguistic research into World Englishes (WE), detailing methodological concerns such as sampling frames, representativeness, corpus size, and statistical modelling on the one hand and the broadening scope of corpus-based research from ENL to ESL and EFL varieties on the other hand. It also surveys areas in which corpus-evidence has been applied in the study of WE (e.g. as a testing bed for models of WEs, for the study of language contact, typology and change or as a source of evidence for sociolinguistic and pragmatic variation), providing ample illustration from seminal research papers and recent studies in the field.

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Corpus-Based Approaches to World Englishes

Hundt¹,

Schreier²,

Schneider³

2019

The Cambridge Handbook of World Englishes

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“…8 In fact, there is not a single occurrence of a modal BE-passive in the progressive in our data. 9 See Hundt (2016) for a detailed discussion on the matter of the allography between been and being as perfect auxiliaries. 10 We used bagging, that is, manually set mtry to include all predictor variables for splitting a node (for details, see https:// epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/59094/1/MA_Hatz.pdf).…”

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“…99See Hundt (2016) for a detailed discussion on the matter of the allography between been and being as perfect auxiliaries.…”

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The be‐ versus get‐passive alternation in world Englishes

Hundt,

Dallas,

Nakanishi

2023

World Englishes

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Multifactorial studies of the be:get‐passive alternation are still rare. On the basis of the International Corpus of English, this is the first investigation to use mixed modelling for the passive alternation in world Englishes. Overall, our findings reveal that regional differences are far less important than language‐internal constraints, with Inner and Outer Circle varieties largely sharing a core grammar. Additionally, while there is qualitative evidence confirming the interchangeability of the two passive allostructions, our generalised‐mixed model reveals that the choice is still heavily influenced by the different semantic origins of the variants, evident not only in the adversative semantics of the get‐passive but also in a tendency to prefer human/animate subjects. The strong prescriptive reaction to the progressive passive in the Late Modern period, however, has not resulted in a marked preference for get over be in progressives in our data.

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“…The next pattern is the use of the past participle, as in examples (48a) to (48d), which occurs mostly (5 of 7 examples) with the verbs SEE and BE (seen and been respectively). Hundt (2016) investigates the use of seen and been for seeing and being in "unusual auxiliary-participle combination" such as *are been seen and *have been seen, and looks at metalinguistic comments, native speaker judgments, corpus data, historical evidence, evidence from dialects, and child language. Her conclusion is that seen and been may be simply a spelling variant of seeing and being, since the two pairs can be homophones in spoken English.…”

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Innovation at the Grammar-lexis Intersection in World Englishes1

Romasanta

2019

NJES

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It has often been claimed that the English complementation system lies at the intersection of grammar and lexis, an area where, in the process of nativization in new varieties of English, innovation and change commonly occur (Olavarría de Ersson and Shaw 2003; Schneider 2007). The current study aims to contribute to this field by looking at the complementation profile of the verb REGRET as used on the internet (Corpus of Global Web-Based English (GloWbE), Davies 2013). The manual analysis of more than 18,000 examples unveils new distributions, uses and patterns of complementation with this verb in 16 different L1 and L2 varieties of English worldwide, for which tentative cognitive explanations are offered.

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Error, feature, (incipient) change – or something else altogether? On the role of low-frequency deviant patterns for the description of Englishes

Cited by 7 publications

References 15 publications

Corpus-Based Approaches to World Englishes

Corpus-Based Approaches to World Englishes

The be‐ versus get‐passive alternation in world Englishes

Innovation at the Grammar-lexis Intersection in World Englishes1

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