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Grammatical change in English world-wide. — v. 67. / Edited by Peter Collins, University of New South Wales, Australia. — 1 online resource. — (Studies in corpus linguistics). — <URL:http://elib.fa.ru/ebsco/961219.pdf>.

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Subject: English language — Globalization.; English language — Variation; English language — Variation; Linguistic change — Globalization.; Intercultural communication.; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General

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Table of Contents

  • Grammatical Change in English World-Wide
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • LCC data
  • Table of contents
  • Introduction
    • References
  • Part 1. Inner circle Englishes
    • Diachronic variation in the grammar of Australian English
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. The study of grammatical change in AusE
      • 3. Corpora and methodology
        • 3.1 The corpora
        • 3.2 The methodology
      • 4. Morphological variables
        • 4.1 Regularisation of irregular past tense and past participle forms
        • 4.2 ‘s-genitives
      • 5. Morphosyntactic variables
        • 5.1 The subjunctive
          • 5.1.1 The mandative subjunctive
          • 5.1.2 The were-subjunctive in hypothetical conditional and concessive clauses
        • 5.2 Concord with collective nouns
      • 6. Syntactic variables
        • 6.1 Light verbs
        • 6.2 Non-finite complementation with help and prevent
          • 6.2.1 Help (NP) (to) V
          • 6.2.2 Prevent NP (from) Ving
        • 6.3 Do-support (with negation)
        • 6.4 Be-passives
      • 7. Conclusion
      • Acknowledgement
      • References
    • At the crossroads of change
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. The history of English have and the transatlantic divide
      • 3. Victoria (British Columbia, Canada) as a sociolinguistic entity
      • 4. Data and methods
        • 4.1 The British Colonist
        • 4.2 Methodology
      • 5. Results
        • 5.1 Overall trends
        • 5.2 A closer look at have got
      • 6. Discussion and conclusion
      • References
    • Do-support in early New Zealand and Australian English
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. Background to the study
        • 2.1 A brief comparative history of Australian and New Zealand English
        • 2.2 Do-support in Late Modern English
      • 3. Data and methodology
        • 3.1 Corpora of early southern hemisphere English
        • 3.2 Definition of the variable and data retrieval
      • 4. Findings
        • 4.1 Negation
        • 4.2 Lexical have
      • 5. Conclusion
      • References
      • Appendix
      • Acknowledgements
    • The progressive in Irish English
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. The corpora
      • 3. Progressives
        • 3.1 The event or activity progressive
        • 3.2 The habitual bounded progressive
        • 3.3 The habitual nonbounded progressive
        • 3.4 The single-occasion repetitive progressive
        • 3.5 The futurate progressive
        • 3.6 The mental nonbounded progressive
        • 3.7 The mental bounded progressive
        • 3.8 The punctual progressive
        • 3.9 The agentive stative progressive
        • 3.10 The non-agentive stative progressive
        • 3.11 The WILL progressive, or the future as matter of course progressive
        • 3.12 The modal progressive
        • 3.13 The DO progressive
        • 3.14 The extended-now progressive
        • 3.15 The attitudinal progressive
        • 3.16 The interpretive progressive
        • 3.17 The generic progressive
        • 3.18 The politeness progressive
        • 3.19 The resultative progressive
        • 3.20 The anaphoric progressive
      • 4. Progressive: Comparisons and results
        • 4.1 The event or activity progressive: Analysis (§3.1)
        • 4.2 The habitual nonbounded progressive: Analysis (§3.3)
        • 4.3 The single occasion repetitive progressive: Analysis (§3.4)
        • 4.4 The futurate progressive: Analysis (§3.5)
        • 4.5 The nonbounded stative progressive: Analysis (§3.6)
        • 4.6 WILL be V-ing progressive: Analysis (§3.11)
        • 4.7 The modal progressive: Analysis
        • 4.7 The extended-now progressive: Analysis (§3.14)
        • 4.8 The attitudinal progressive: Analysis (§3.15)
      • 5. Conclusion
      • References
    • Cross-variety diachronic drifts and ephemeral regional contrasts
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. BrE vs AmE contrasts are ephemeral: Regional comparison in the Brown family at three diachronic sampling points
      • 3. Some core modals are on the decline, but the category remains robust: Diachronic trends in the extended Brown family
      • 4. Obsolescence and emergence in a volatile system: The semi-modals in the extended Brown family
      • 5. Conclusion: Time trumps region, and genre remains as the most important source of statistical noise.
      • References
      • Appendix: Tests for statistical significance – log likelihood values
    • Passives of so-called ‘ditransitives’ in nineteenth century and present-day Canadian English
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. Historical aspects of the passive and of double-participant verbs
        • 2.1 Second passives
        • 2.2 First passives
        • 2.3 Prepositional passives
      • 3. The corpora
      • 4. Competing types of passives, analysis and theoretical background
        • 4.1 Choice of verbs and characterisation of passives investigated
        • 4.2 Active-passive relationships with double-participant verbs
        • 4.3 Functional analyses of transitive verbs with respect to passivisation
        • 4.4 The interplay of passivisation and NP-extraction
      • 5. Results
        • 5.1 Passives in 19th century versus Present-day CanE
        • 5.2 Passives in the Strathy corpus: Using a broader database
        • 5.3 The verbs bring and deny
      • 6. Analysis of major patterns of passivisation and their restrictions
      • 7. Conclusion
      • References
    • Dual adverbs in Australian English
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. Previous corpus-based research on variation in dual adverbs
      • 3. Methodology
        • 3.1 Data sources for this study
        • 3.2 Selection of dual adverbs for this study
        • 3.3 Analysis of contexts of discourse and syntax
      • 4. Contextual distribution of zero and -ly forms of adverbs in current AusE
        • 4.1 Preliminary analysis: Distribution of dual adverbs in spoken and written discourse
        • 4.2 Syntactic contexts of occurrence for dual adverbs in current AusE and their semantics
          • 4.2.1 Bad/badly
          • 4.2.2 Close/closely
          • 4.2.3 High/highly
          • 4.2.4 Quick, slow
        • 4.3 Summary of 20th century AusE usage of five dual adverbs
      • 5. Distribution of dual adverbs in earlier AusE
      • 6. Distribution of dual adverbs in 19th and 20th century BrE
        • 6.1 Dual adverbs in 19th century BrE narrative and current affairs texts
        • 6.2 Dual adverbs in 20th century BrE: Data from ICE-GB
      • 7. Conclusion
      • References
    • The evolution of epistemic marking in West Australian English
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. Background
      • 2. Data and method
        • 2.1 Data
        • 2.2 Coding
      • 4.2 The grammaticalisation of AusE think: Empirical evidence
      • 3.1 Overall distribution
      • 4. Discussion and conclusions
      • References
    • May and might in nineteenth-century Irish English and English English*
      • 1. Introduction
    • The present perfect and the preterite in Australian English
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. Variation and change in the English PP and SP
      • 3. Data
      • 4. The variable rule analysis
      • 5. Discussion and conclusion
      • References
      • Appendix
  • Part 2. Outer circle Englishes
    • Recent diachronic change in the progressive in Philippine English
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. The progressive aspect
      • 3. Previous studies of the progressive
      • 4. The present study
      • 5. Regional and stylistic distribution
      • 6. Progressive forms
        • 6.1 Progressive VPs
        • 6.2 Progressive passives
      • 7. Special uses
        • 7.1 The futurate progressive
        • 7.2 The ‘future as a matter-of-course’ progressive
        • 7.3 The habitual always progressive
        • 7.4 The interpretive progressive
      • 8. Contracted forms
      • 9. Stative verbs
      • 10. Conclusion
      • Acknowledgement
      • References
    • Linguistic change in a multilingual setting
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. The quotative system
        • 2.1 Quotatives in native-speaker Englishes: A diachronic perspective
        • 2.2 Quotatives in native-speaker Englishes: A synchronic view
      • 3. Data and methods
      • 4. Overall distribution of variants
      • 5. Multivariate analyses and diachronic comparisons
        • 5.1 Verbs of reporting
        • 5.2 Zero quotatives
        • 5.3 Verbs of mental activity and perception
        • 5.4 Be like
        • 5.5 Okay (fine)
      • 6. Discussion and conclusion
      • References
      • Appendix
    • Patterns of regularisation in British, American and Indian English
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. Irregular regularisation: AmE vs BrE
      • 3. IndE
        • 3.1 The position of IndE in Schneider’s Dynamic Model
        • 3.2 Some examples of (structural) nativisation
      • 4. Research questions
      • 5. The data
        • 5.1 Synchronic data
        • 5.2 Diachronic data
      • 6. Data analysis
        • 6.1 Synchronic data
          • 6.1.1 General overview
          • 6.1.2 Internal variation
        • 6.2 Diachronic data
          • 6.2.1 LOB, FLOB, BROWN, and FROWN
          • 6.2.2 Kolhapur vs LOB, FLOB, BROWN and FROWN
          • 6.2.3 ICE-GB, ICE-USA and ICE-India
          • 6.2.4 Kolhapur, ICE-India and GloWbE
      • 7. Accounting for the variation between ed and t forms
        • 7.1 Frequency
        • 7.2 Salience of change
      • 8. Conclusion
      • References
    • An apparent time study of the progressive in Nigerian English*
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. The progressive in English
      • 3. Data and methods
      • 4. Results
        • 4.1 Frequency of the progressive
        • 4.2 Frequency of extended uses of the progressive
      • 5. General discussion and comparison with other varieties of English
      • References
      • Appendix
    • American influence on written Caribbean English
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. The Bahamas and Trinidad and Tobago: Sociohistorical and sociolinguistic background
      • 3. Data and method
      • 4. Contractions
      • 5. The be-passive
      • 6. Relative that vs which
      • 7. Pseudotitles
      • 8. Conclusion
      • References
    • Cultural keywords in context
      • 1. Introduction: Structural nativisation and linguistic acculturation
      • 2. South Asian cultures and cultural keywords in South Asian contexts
      • 3. Methodology
      • 4. Results
      • 5. Concluding remarks
      • References
    • Recent quantitative changes in the use ofmodals and quasi-modals in the Hong Kong,British and American printed press
      • 1. Background
      • 2. Problem
      • 3. Methodology
      • 4. Results and discussion
        • 4.1 American newspapers
        • 4.2 British newspapers
        • 4.3 The Hong Kong newspapers
      • 5. Summary and conclusion
      • References
    • The development of an extended time period meaning of the progressive in Black South African English*
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. Methodology
        • 2.1 Data
        • 2.2 Analysis
        • 2.3 Framework for the classification of stative progressive meanings
      • 3. Results
      • 4. Discussion
      • References
  • List of Index

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