The Present Perfect in World Englishes
Author : Valentin Werner
Publisher : University of Bamberg Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 32,86 MB
Release : 2014-08-06
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ISBN : 3863092252
Re-assessing the Present Perfect
Author : Valentin Werner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 49,62 MB
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110443538
Book Description
It is a well-known fact that the area of the present perfect has always been a hotly contested ground, but recent corpus analyses have shown that grammatical variation in this realm in English is far more pervasive than previously assumed. This volume is the first ever book-length treatment dedicated to corpus-based work on the present perfect. It offers fresh theoretical insights resting on a solid empirical footing and investigates central aspects of language contact and change, grammaticalization, typology, and dialect formation. It sheds light on this morphosyntactic area from different angles, as it comprises both diachronic and synchronic viewpoints. Contributions explore variation in the expression of perfect meaning and the multifunctionality of perfect forms in a number of native and non-native varieties, thus going beyond the traditional British/American English paradigm, while a second focus lies on cross-variety comparisons. Bringing together the knowledge of leading experts in the field, this book represents the state of the art in data-driven research on the present perfect and will be of interest for those working in the fields of language variation and change, corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics, and typology.
World Englishes
Author : Elena Seoane
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 39,45 MB
Release : 2016-05-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027267065
Book Description
This book provides a collection of articles that reflect the current state of affairs in the blossoming field of World Englishes by bringing together several innovative synchronic and diachronic approaches. It contributes to the ongoing theoretical discussion concerning the criteria that make a low-frequency item represent an incipient change and examines the suitability of the sociolinguistics of globalisation theory for the study of non-traditional avenues for the spread of vernacular varieties of English (recent migrations, the entertainment industry, the web). It explores crucial aspects of language change and dialect evolution through the study of grammatical phenomena and the particular linguistic and socio-historical factors conditioning them. Together with theoretical questions, the volume shows a concern for methodological issues, such as sociolinguistic interviews, map-task experiments, metalinguistic comments, acceptability judgments and corpus-based methods. This volume represents the latest trends in the field and will undoubtedly set the agenda for the years ahead.
The Perfect Time Span
Author : Björn Rothstein
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 18,37 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027255083
Book Description
This book is the first book-length study on the Swedish present perfect. It provides an in-depth exploration of the present perfect in English, German and Swedish. It is claimed that only a discourse-based ExtendedNow-approach fully accounts for the present perfect. The main claim is that the length of the ExtendedNow-interval varies cross-linguistically. The book is couched within the framework of the Discourse Representation Theory and also within Distributed Morphology. It is shown that Swedish provides empirical evidence against all previous research in the field. The following questions are investigated: Is it possible to assign a single uniform meaning to the present perfect? How can we account for the different readings of the perfect? How can we account for the cross-linguistic variation? These issues are addressed from a comparative perspective by integrating previous research on the present perfect. This book is of interest to all those working in the field of tense and aspect.
The Present Perfect and the Preterite in Late Modern and Contemporary English
Author : Xinyue Yao
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 20,57 MB
Release : 2024-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027248605
Book Description
This book examines developments in the use of the present perfect and the preterite in Late Modern and contemporary English, with a focus on American and British English. Drawing on neo-Gricean pragmatics, it proposes a novel and principled analysis of the verb forms’ context-independent meanings and context-dependent inferences. State-of-the-art corpus linguistic methods are used to track their functional changes over two and a half centuries. The book presents new evidence of grammatical change and offers a compelling, contact-based account of regional variation. It brings together the insights of various fields, including formal semantics, historical linguistics, linguistic typology, and variationist sociolinguistics.
Changing English
Author : Markku Filppula
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 17,72 MB
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110429659
Book Description
This book examines the special nature of English both as a global and a local language, focusing on some of the ongoing changes and on the emerging new structural and discoursal characteristics of varieties of English. Although it is widely recognised that processes of language change and contact bear affinities, for example, to processes observable in second-language acquisition and lingua franca use, the research into these fields has so far not been sufficiently brought into contact with each other. The articles in this volume set out to combine all these perspectives in ways that give us a better understanding of the changing nature of English in the modern world.
The Present Perfect in Non-Native Englishes
Author : Julia Davydova
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 15,26 MB
Release : 2011-07-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110255022
Book Description
This is an innovative study of variation among linguistic items in what has been traditionally described as present perfect contexts. The study offers analyses of new data sets taken from an interestingly diverse set of non-native Englishes. While comprising traditional second-language varieties such as Indian English, Singapore English, East African English in the investigation of the present perfect, the study extends its scope to cover learner varieties of English spoken in Russia and Germany. The author takes her reader on an amazing variationist journey around the globe, revealing chapter after chapter the commonalities and differences in the patterns of use of the English present perfect and, finally, developing a comprehensive perspective allowing for robust generalisations across numerous data sets. Moreover, empirical data serves as a baseline for taking a stand on a number of currently debated issues in variationist sociolinguistics, research on second language acquisition as well as research on linguistic complexity. Thus operating on the interface of various linguistic paradigms, the book addresses a vast audience including students of linguistics and researchers with various fields of specialization.
Grammatical Change in English World-Wide
Author : Peter Collins
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 32,45 MB
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027268908
Book Description
The contributions to this volume apply and extend the techniques of corpus linguistics and diachronic linguistics to the challenge of describing and explaining grammatical change in varieties of English world-wide. The book is divided into two parts, with ten chapters on ‘Inner Circle’ varieties such as Australian, Canadian, and Irish English, and eight on ‘Outer Circle’ varieties such as Philippine, Indian, and Nigerian English. Contributors examine a range of topics including the progressive aspect, modal auxiliaries, do-support, verb morphology, and quotatives, using a wide variety of corpus resources. Overarching research questions addressed include the following: Do diachronic tendencies observed in a particular variety converge with, diverge from, or run in parallel with, those in the parent variety? What are the possible causes of changes observed (e.g. English teaching traditions, Americanisation, internal changes in registers)? This book will appeal to linguists, particularly those interested in grammatical description, corpus linguistics and World Englishes.
Grammar – Discourse – Context
Author : Kristin Bech
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 40,82 MB
Release : 2019-12-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110682664
Book Description
This collected volume brings together a wide array of international linguists working on diachronic language change with a specific focus on the history of English, who work within usage-based frameworks and investigate processes of grammatical change in context. Although usage-based linguistics emphasizes the centrality of the discourse context for language usage and cognition, this insight has not been fully integrated into the investigation of processes of grammatical variation and change. The structuralist heritage as well as corpus linguistic methodologies have favoured de-contextualized analytical perspectives on contemporary and historical language data and on the mechanisms and processes guiding grammatical variation and change. From a range of different perspectives, the contributions to this volume take up the challenge of contextualization in the investigation of grammatical variation and change in different stages of English language history and discuss central theoretical notions such as gradable grammaticality, motivation in hypervariation, and hypercharacterization. The book will be relevant to students and linguists working in the field of diachronic and variational linguistics and English language history.
World Englishes--problems, Properties and Prospects
Author : International Association for World Englishes. International Conference
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 36,86 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027249008
Book Description
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