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Complementing corpus analysis with web-based experimentation in research on World Englishes
In: English world-wide. - Amsterdam [u.a.] : Benjamins 40 (2019) 1, 24-52
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Conversion in Asian Englishes. A usage-based account of the emergence of new local norms. ...
Horch, Stephanie. - : Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, 2016
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Conversion in Asian Englishes : a usage-based account of the emergence of new local norms
Horch, Stephanie. - : Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, 2016
Abstract: While phonetic, morphosyntactic, and lexical variation in World Englishes have been studied extensively, phenomena at the lexis-grammar interface have not yet received the same amount of attention. This book investigates the conversion of verbs to nouns as in to require (verb) > a require (noun) in Asian varieties of English. More specifically, the study compares this process in three New Englishes (Hong Kong English, Singapore English, and Indian English) with its usage pattern in two major native varieties of English: British and US American English. The methods used to explore this phenomenon range from the quantitative analysis of large corpora such as GloWbE or COCA to the qualitative analysis of the ICE corpora. Corpus findings are subsequently corroborated by means of web-based psycholinguistic experiments testing acceptability as well as processing speed of verb-to-noun conversion. The main explanatory factors which are scrutinized are, first, the influence of contact languages such as the highly analytic Chinese, second, the degree of institutionalization, which is conceptualized drawing on the developmental phases in Schneider’s Dynamic Model, and third, the usage frequencies of the verbal base and the derived, non-converted nominal form (e.g. requirement). By applying multivariate statistics, this book provides an attempt to integrate these three factors, contributing to a refinement of the Dynamic Model from the usage-based perspective.
Keyword: Anglistik; Englisch; Konversion (Linguistik); Korpus (Linguistik); Variationslinguistik
URL: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:25-freidok-129101
https://doi.org/10.6094/978-3-928969-68-0
https://www.freidok.uni-freiburg.de/dnb/download/12910
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