Verb-complementational profiles across varieties of English: Comparing verb classes in Indian English and British English

Mukherjee, Joybrato; Schilk, Marco

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“…This absence of progress in the standardisation of this variety prompted Mukherjee (2007) to assert that IndE has entered a 'steady state' in its development as an indigenised variety of English, with progressive forces (emergence and use of indigenised endonormative language structures) and conservative forces (insistence on upholding exonormative BrE standards) balancing each other out. This includes lexical focus marking (Balasubramanian 2009a,b;Parviainen and Fuchs 2015;Sedlatschek 2009), topicalisation, dislocation and clefts , use of determiners (Davydova 2012;Sedlatschek 2009;Sharma 2005b), verb complementation (Hoffmann andMukherjee 2007;Koch and Bernaisch 2013;Mukherjee 2010;Mukherjee and Hoffmann 2006;Mukherjee and Schilk 2008;Schilk 2011), extension of the progressive (Collins 2008;Davydova 2012;Sharma 2009), use of past tense and present perfect (Davydova 2011;Fuchs 2016/to appear;Sharma 2009;Werner 2013), use of intensifiers (Fuchs and Gut 2016/to appear) and copula omission (Sharma 2009). Even if some Indians grow up speaking English, making them native speakers in the linguistic sense of the term, attitudes to IndE cause many Indians to deny that it can be their 'mother tongue'.…”

Section: Number Of Speakers and Sociolinguistic Varieties Of Indian Ementioning

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Speech Rhythm in Varieties of English

Fuchs¹

2016

Prosody, Phonology and Phonetics

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The series will publish studies in the general area of Speech Prosody with a particular (but non-exclusive) focus on the importance of phonetics and phonology in this field. The topic of speech prosody is today a far larger area of research than is often realised. The number of papers on the topic presented at large international conferences such as Interspeech and ICPhS is considerable and regularly increasing. The proposed book series would be the natural place to publish extended versions of papers presented at the Speech Prosody Conferences, in particular the papers presented in Special Sessions at the conference. This could potentially involve the publication of 3 or 4 volumes every two years ensuring a stable future for the book series. If such publications are produced fairly rapidly, they will in turn provide a strong incentive for the organisation of other special sessions at future Speech Prosody conferences.More information about this series at

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Section: Number Of Speakers and Sociolinguistic Varieties Of Indian Ementioning

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Speech Rhythm in Varieties of English

Fuchs¹

2016

Prosody, Phonology and Phonetics

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“…They thus find that IE has some grammaticalised structures that make it different from native varieties of English. Mukherjee and Schilk (2008) examine type II transfer‐caused‐motion construction (TCM) verb + noun + to noun. Verbs such as convey , submit and supply are studied and differences found between British and Indian English uses.…”

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Indian English: Features and Sociolinguistic Aspects

Sailaja

2012

Language and Linguist. Compass

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Indian English has been the subject of study since colonial times, with several works written over the years describing its linguistic features. Considerable attention has been paid to the lexis, morphology and syntactic constructions, as also the sound system. Yet, the investigation is far from over, nor is there agreement on issues. Recent work has moved in the direction of corpus‐based studies, enabling the establishment of tendencies and grammaticalised forms in a quantified manner. Acoustic phonetic studies are increasingly the norm. These empirically verified conclusions either negate or confirm earlier intuition‐based and impressionistic descriptions. Together, these works help to establish what makes up the national variety, the standard and variation. Two theoretical debates emerge in this scenario. The first is the nature and extent of substrate influence and its intersection with L2 universals. The second is a debate on the phase to which Indian English belongs in Schneider’s dynamic model of evolution for New Englishes: phase 3 of nativisation or phase 4 of endonormative stabilisation.

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“…Recent literature on post-colonial Englishes recognizes the value of investigating the interface between lexis and grammar to better characterize ESL varieties. With specific regard to complementation, the field is currently witnessing a fast growing development of corpus-based research aimed to track systematic deviations in the contexts of use of complement constructions (see Olavarría de Ersson & Shaw 2003;Mukherjee & Hoffmann 2006;Mukherjee & Schilk 2008;Schilk et al 2012Schilk et al , 2013; and Deshors 2014a). One particularly interesting study is Schilk et al (2012) in which the authors focus on the complementation patterns of the lexical verbs convey, submit and supply (which are typically used in the transfer-caused motion construction [TCM] such as give something to someone) across Indian, Sri Lankan and British Englishes.…”

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Profiling verb complementation constructions across New Englishes

Deshors

Gries

2016

IJCL

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In this paper, we explore verb complementation patterns withtoandingin native English (British and American English) as compared to three Asian Englishes (Hong Kong, Indian, and Singaporean English). Based on data from the International Corpus of English annotated for variables describing the matrix verb and the complement, we run two random forests analyses to determine where the Asian Englishes have developed complementation preferences different from the two native speaker varieties. We find not only a variety of differences between the Asian and the native Englishes, but also that the Asian Englishes are more similar (i.e. ‘better predicted by’) the American English data. Further, as the first study of its kind to extend the MuPDAR approach from the now frequent regression analyses to random forests analysis, this study adds a potentially useful analytical tool to the often messy and skewed observational data corpus linguists need to deal with.

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Verb-complementational profiles across varieties of English: Comparing verb classes in Indian English and British English

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Speech Rhythm in Varieties of English

Speech Rhythm in Varieties of English

Indian English: Features and Sociolinguistic Aspects

Profiling verb complementation constructions across New Englishes

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