Structural nativization in Indian English lexicogrammar / Marco Schilk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schilk, Marco.

Series:

Studies in corpus linguistics ; v. 46.

Studies in corpus linguistics (SCL), 1388-0373 ; v. 46

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--India--Grammar.

English language.

English language--India--Usage.

Lexicology.

Grammaticality (Linguistics).

Linguistic analysis (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (196 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book contains the first in-depth corpus-based description of structural nativization at the lexis-grammar interface in Indian English, the largest institutionalized second-language variety of English world-wide. For a set of three ditransitive verbs give, send and offer -collocational patterns, verb-complementational preferences and correlations between collocational and verb-complementational routines are described. The present study is based on the comparison of the Indian and the British components of the International Corpus of English as well as a 100-million-wor

Contents:

Structural Nativization in Indian English Lexicogrammar; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction and overview; 2. Aspects of structural nativization; 3. Aspects of lexicogrammar; 4. Methodology; 5. GIVE; 6. SEND; 7. OFFER; 8. Evaluation and discussion; 9. Conclusion and prospects for future research; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613280534

9781283280532

1283280531

9789027285089

902728508X

OCLC:

748242126