The Lexis and Lexicogrammar of Sri Lankan English

Bernaisch, Tobias

doi:10.1075/veaw.g54

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“…Investigations on the complementation of light verb constructions are rather diverse. Some of them focus on the contribution of the light verb and the deverbal noun to the selection of complements (Huddleston, Pullum, 2010;Wittenberg, 2014;Bruening, 2015), while others deal with the variety of complements taken by different light verbs (Muk-herjee, 2010;Hoffman et al, 2011;Bernaisch, 2015), and yet others study complementation patterns of LVCs (Giparaitė, 2016). The latter research describes complementation patterns of LVCs in twenty English varieties and reveals that LVCs with the light verb have select the largest number of complement patterns and take complements in more English varieties under investigation than LVCs with the verbs get and give (ibid).…”

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Tekstyno duomenimis pagrįstas britų anglų kalbos konstrukcijų su veiksmažodiniais daiktavardžiais CHAT, TALK ir CONVERSATION tyrimas

Giparaitė¹,

Balčiūtė²

2019

Žmogus Ir Žodis

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The present research aims at giving a quantitative and qualitative analysis of semantic and syntactic properties of prototypically different light verb constructions with the synonymous deverbal nouns chat, talk, and conversation in British English. The constructions under investigation are studied in terms of combinability with different light verbs, complementation patterns, and adjectival modification. Data for the analysis are collected from the British National Corpus (BNC). The study reveals that prototypically different types of light verb constructions behave in a similar way in terms of the researched aspects. However, significant differences can be found when the deverbal nouns under investigation combine with different light verbs.

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Tekstyno duomenimis pagrįstas britų anglų kalbos konstrukcijų su veiksmažodiniais daiktavardžiais CHAT, TALK ir CONVERSATION tyrimas

Giparaitė¹,

Balčiūtė²

2019

Žmogus Ir Žodis

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“…With regard to Schneider's (2003, 2007) model, which describes five phases of the evolution of postcolonial Englishes, previous research has found that SLE has passed – with differential perspectives for individual structural levels – the nativisation phase and now displays several characteristics of endonormative stabilisation (Bernaisch, 2015). However, British English (BrE) – the historical input variety – does not account for all linguistic influences on SLE.…”

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Pragmatic nativisation of thanking in South Asian Englishes

Funke

2020

World Englishes

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As South Asian Englishes have been studied regarding their structural levels but only few studies have focused on their pragmatics, this study investigates thanking strategies in the spoken parts of the British, Indian, and Sri Lankan components of the International Corpus of English. The paper answers the questions: Do VARI-ETY, speaker AGE and GENDER, context FORMALITY, POSITION within the speaker turn, and the presence of a BENEFACTOR, INTENSIFIER, and REASON influence the choice between thank and thanks; and what implications do these findings have for the notion of pragmatic nativisation? In a multifactorial analysis, a conditional inference tree identifies AGE, BENEFACTOR, INTENSIFIER, and VARIETY as significant predictors while a random forest highlights the importance of variable interactions with VARIETY.

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“…Concerning the latter, Hoffmann, Hundt, and Mukherjee () and Gries and Bernaisch () suggest that IndE, though heterogeneous in nature across the country, seems in some regards to exert epicentral influence and function as a model variety to SLE, for example in the domain of English‐language teaching. Yet, based on Schneider's (, ) model, which traces the different phases in the evolution of postcolonial Englishes, it has been suggested that SLE – at least concerning features of its lexicogrammar – has already passed through a phase of structural nativisation and currently displays many characteristics of an endonormatively stabilised (Bernaisch, ), yet semi‐autonomous variety (Mukherjee, , p. 182). Investigating the dis‐/similarities between the three varieties therefore provides a holistic picture in their given geohistorical context and elucidates whether the varieties have followed different paths of pragmatic development in regard to the use of filled and unfilled pauses.…”

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The pragmatic nativisation of pauses in Asian Englishes

Revis

Bernaisch

2020

World Englishes

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Studies within the world Englishes paradigm have furnished detailed descriptions of numerous lexical, morphological and syntactic features. Although laudable exceptions exist, pragmatics as well as the concept of pragmatic nativisation have so far been largely neglected in world Englishes – particularly from an empirical angle. The present paper investigates pauses – more specifically the choice between filled (for example, uh, uhm) and unfilled pauses (that is, silence) – in two South Asian Englishes, Indian and Sri Lankan English, in comparison to the culturally distinct British English. Central research questions include: (a) are there variety‐specific differences in the use of filled/unfilled pauses; (b) which additional factors determine the choice between filled and unfilled pauses; and (c) what implications do the results have for the notion of pragmatic nativisation?

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The Lexis and Lexicogrammar of Sri Lankan English

Cited by 33 publications

References 78 publications

Tekstyno duomenimis pagrįstas britų anglų kalbos konstrukcijų su veiksmažodiniais daiktavardžiais CHAT, TALK ir CONVERSATION tyrimas

Tekstyno duomenimis pagrįstas britų anglų kalbos konstrukcijų su veiksmažodiniais daiktavardžiais CHAT, TALK ir CONVERSATION tyrimas

Pragmatic nativisation of thanking in South Asian Englishes

The pragmatic nativisation of pauses in Asian Englishes

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