Educated Fiji English : lexico-grammar and variety status / Lena Zipp, University of Zurich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zipp, Lena.

Series:

Varieties of English around the world. General series ; v. 47.

Varieties of English around the world. General series, 0172-7362 ; volume G47

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fijian language--Textbooks for foreign speakers--English.

Fijian language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2014]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This volume contains a comprehensive corpus-based study of prepositional constructions in written Fiji English. It explores the endo- and exonormative dynamics of norm-giving and norm-developing varieties and contributes to our understanding of structural nativization and variety formation in a multi-ethnic setting. The book provides an account of the sociolinguistic development of English in Fiji against the backdrop of the country's colonial and post-independence history, with special focus on the Indo-Fijian part of the population. Drawing on the written sections of the Indian, Great Britain, New Zealand and preliminary Fiji components of the International Corpus of English, quantitative and qualitative analyses of prepositional phenomena are conducted on the word level (frequency, semantic effects and stylistic variation), phrase level (productivity in verb-particle combinations), and pattern level (prepositions and -ing clauses). The book will be relevant to scholars interested in lexico-grammar, variety and corpus linguistics, and sociolinguistics in general.

Contents:

""Educated Fiji English""; ""Editorial page ""; ""Title page ""; ""LCC data ""; ""Table of contents""; ""Map ""; ""Abbreviations""; ""List of tables""; ""List of figures""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Chapter 1. Introduction""; ""1.1 Aims and scope""; ""1.2 Outline of chapters""; ""Chapter 2. Fiji: History and sociolinguistic setting""; ""2.1 Fiji�s colonial and post-colonial history""; ""2.2 Fiji�s sociolinguistic background""; ""2.3 English in Fiji""; ""Chapter 3. Theory, methodology and data""; ""3.1 Theoretical background: The New Englishes paradigm""

""3.1.1 The status of Fiji English in Schneider�s 2007 model""""3.1.2 Exo- and endonormative models in Fiji: Research hypotheses""; ""3.2 Lexico-grammar as the locus of structural nativisation""; ""3.3 Data and method""; ""3.3.1 Methodology and corpus design""; ""3.3.2 The challenges of data compilation""; ""3.4 Statistics""; ""3.4.1 Log likelihood ratio""; ""3.4.2 Dispersion statistics""; ""Chapter 4. Word level: Prepositions""; ""4.1 Word frequency""; ""4.2 Preposition frequencies""; ""4.2.1 Variety-specific preposition profiles""

""4.2.2 Adjusting the variable set: Dispersion and lexical clusters""""4.2.3 Exo- and endonormative tendencies in Fiji�s preposition profiles""; ""4.2.4 Adverbial particles""; ""4.2.5 High-frequency prepositions""; ""4.3 Semantic effects""; ""4.3.1 Semantics of through""; ""4.3.2 Semantics of within""; ""4.4 Case studies of stylistic variation""; ""4.5 Summary""; ""Chapter 5. Phrase level: Verb-particle combinations""; ""5.1 Productivity and creativity in verb-particle combinations""; ""5.2 Frequency profiles of verb-particle combinations""; ""5.3 New particle verbs across varieties""

""5.3.1 Verb-particle combinations with up""""5.3.2 Theory building: Semantic redundancy""; ""5.3.3 Verb-particle combinations with out""; ""5.3.4 Theory building: Combinations with Latinate verbs""; ""5.3.5 Verb-particle combinations with down""; ""5.3.6 Verb-particle combinations with off""; ""5.3.7 Verb-particle combinations with away""; ""5.3.8 Verb-particle combinations with into""; ""5.3.9 Verb-particle combinations with about""; ""5.3.10 Conclusion""; ""5.4 Summary""; ""Chapter 6. Pattern level: Prepositions and -ing clauses""; ""6.1 Prepositions and -ing patterns""

""6.2 Prepositional -ing complementation""""6.2.1 The at -ing pattern""; ""6.2.2 The from -ing pattern""; ""6.2.2.1 Case study: prevent""; ""6.2.3 The in -ing pattern""; ""6.2.3.1 Case study: help""; ""6.2.3.2 Case study: difficulty""; ""6.2.3.3 Case study: Phrasal patterns""; ""6.3 Adverbial -ing clauses""; ""6.4 Summary""; ""Chapter 7. Conclusion""; ""7.1 Summary of results ""; ""7.2 Limits and outlook""; ""Bibliography""; ""Appendix A. First search query list of prepositions""; ""Appendix B. Adjusted set of prepositional variables""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 17, 2014).

ISBN:

9781461957737

1461957737

9789027270771

9027270775

OCLC:

874133497