Mapping unity and diversity in South Asian English lexicogrammar

Schilk, Marco; Bernaisch, Tobias; Mukherjee, Joybrato

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“…Especially with regard to the newspaper corpora, the results of the cluster analysis were in line with earlier studies of morphosyntactic linguistic variation: while most South Asian varieties of English are relatively homogeneous, Sri Lankan English seems to be closer to its historical input variety British English (cf. Schilk et al 2012). With regard to the Southeast Asian varieties our cluster analysis also confirms the idea that Hong Kong English and Singapore English are at different stages of their developmental process, with SinE being the endonormatively stabilized variety and HKE being more strongly influenced by BrE.…”

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Recent Advances in Corpus Linguistics

Vandelanotte¹,

Davidse²,

Gentens³

2014

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The progressive in South Asian and Southeast Asian varieties of English -147 mapping areal homogeneity and heterogeneity Marco Schilk and Marc Hammel Neology: from word to register 173 Antoinette Renouf viii Contents English amid(st) and among(st): a contrastive approach based on 207 Norwegian and Swedish translation Thomas Egan and Gudrun Rawoens Cohesive conjunctions in English and German: systemic contrasts and 229 textual differences Kerstin Kunz and Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski Part 3. Second language acquisition "Anyway, the point I'm making is": lexicogrammatical relevance 265 marking in lectures Katrien L. B. Deroey Faux amis in speech and writing: a corpus-based study of English 293 false friends in the production of Spanish students M. Luisa Roca-Varela Automated classification of unexpected uses of this and that in a learner 309 corpus of English Thomas Gaillat, Pascale Sébillot and Nicolas Ballier Crude contours: a pilot study into the feasibility of charting student 325 speakers' proficiency †Monique van der Haagen, Pieter de Haan and Rina de Vries A longitudinal study of the syntactic development of very advanced 335 Dutch EFL writing Pieter de Haan and †Monique van der Haagen Vandelanotte (University of Namur). They were very pleased that Caroline Gentens and Ditte Kimps joined the editorial team.While naturally we accept the final responsibility for the choices made, we were very lucky in being guided by the conscientious advice of the following external referees: den Branden. We much appreciated their careful comments and suggestions for revision, which benefited both the papers selected for this volume and those eventually recommended to other publication outlets.Without the contributors, there obviously would not shave been a volume. We thank them for developing the studies they presented at ICAME 33 with an eye to the general coherence of this volume and for the good spirit in which the whole enterprise was conducted.Rodopi helped along the project with their usual friendly efficiency. Eric Van Broekhuizen was always ready to offer help and useful advice and we are very grateful to the series editors Christian Mair, Charles Meyer and Nelleke Oostdijk for having accepted the volume for publication in the series Language and Computers: Studies in Practical Linguistics.For generous financial support of the conference, thanks are due to the Research Foundation -Flanders (FWO), the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS) and the Leuven International Doctoral School for the Humanities and Social Sciences. We would also like to acknowledge the support of the GOAproject 12/007, for linguists, but for sociologists and historians as well. The corpus will be available in different formats, focusing not only on textual transcription, but also on visual representations and meta-textual information. Beal and Sen set out the main lines of a project to develop a corpus of eighteenth-century English phonology, based on eighteenth-century pronouncing dictionaries and other texts dealing with pronunciation. ...

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“…Schilk et al 2012). A further noteworthy point is that Hong Kong English is grouped with British English, while Singapore English is not included in any of the clusters.…”

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“…Englishes also surfaces in studies on transfer-caused-motion constructions with CONVEY, SUBMIT and SUPPLY (cf. Schilk et al 2012) or new ditransitives (cf. Koch & Bernaisch 2013).…”

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Attitudes towards Englishes in India

Bernaisch

Koch

2015

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With the help of a survey building on 13 bipolar pairs arranged on a six‐point semantic differential scale, the present paper studies Indian English speakers’ attitudes towards their local variety Indian English contrastively by simultaneously examining their attitudes towards American English, British English and Sri Lankan English. The results show that although Indian speakers of English display a positive attitude towards Indian English, which is most pronounced with the group of young female informants possibly leading an ongoing linguistic change in India, the informants view British English in a more favourable light. In addition, Indian English speakers show the least positive attitude towards Sri Lankan English, which may be an indication of mutual attitudinal demarcation between the two neighbour varieties.

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“…Given the above-described context, contrasting native and second-language (ESL) varieties of English comes as the natural next step in understanding how different populations of English users structure and ultimately lexicalize the subjective notion of belief. Recently, corpus-based analyses contrasting ESL varieties have shown that differences between varieties of English manifest themselves in different degrees and at different levels of analysis (Bernaisch et al 2014) and much of contemporary work in ESL has so far mainly focused on syntactic or lexico-grammatical features (Biermeier 2008;see Mukherjee & Schilk 2008;Mukherjee & Gries 2009;Schilk et al 2012;Bernaisch et al 2014;Bernaisch & Gries 2016 among others for studies exploring the lexico-grammatical interface). To date, ESL varieties have rarely been contrasted empirically from a semantic perspective (however, see Werner & Mukherjee 2012 for a corpus-based study on highly polysemous verbs in ESL); and although there are ESL studies focused on lexical phenomena (e.g.…”

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Structuring subjectivity in Asian Englishes

Deshors

2017

ETC

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This study investigates the usage patterns of four near-synonymous mental predicates (believe, guess, suppose and think) across three Asian ESL (English as a Second Language) varieties as well as British and American Englishes. Using two multivariate techniques, multiple correspondence analysis and classification and regression tree analysis, the study shows the benefits of exploring cross-varietal variation through the lens of lexicalization patterns. The study also demonstrates that to make sense of semantic patterns it is crucial to account for extra-linguistic factors such as genre, as different ESL writers structure the meaning of believe, guess, suppose and think differently depending on their type of writing. Ultimately, in the broader context of the emancipation of ESL varieties, the results raise important questions about the developmental process of Asian Englishes and the place that semantic structure holds in this endeavor.

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Mapping unity and diversity in South Asian English lexicogrammar

Cited by 46 publications

References 15 publications

Recent Advances in Corpus Linguistics

Recent Advances in Corpus Linguistics

Attitudes towards Englishes in India

Structuring subjectivity in Asian Englishes

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