Null subjects in English : a comparison of British English and Asian Englishes / Verena Schröter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schröter, Verena, author.

Series:

Topics in English linguistics ; volume 102.

Topics in English linguistics, 1434-3452 ; volume 102

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Null subject.

English language.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Null subject.

Physical Description:

xviii, 291 pages : illustrations (partly color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, [2019]

Contents:

Acknowledgements

List of Tables

List of Figures

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Null subjects

Research context and method

Database

Scope and structure of the present study

Null subjects in British English

Null subjects : Theoretical, methodological and descriptive foundations

Pro-forms and pro-drop

Pro-forms

Pronouns and information structure

Pro-drop

Quantitative approaches

The variationist paradigm and grammatical variation

Variationist studies on null subjects

Null subjects in L1 English

English as a non-null subject language?

Quantitative research on null subjects in English

Empirical baseline : Null subjects in Spoken British English

The envelope of variation : Coding decisions and examples

Analytic categories : Linguistic factors

Coreferential coordination

Clause type

Position

Person

Specific reference

Switch reference

Persistence

Verb phrase

Overview ICE Great Britain : Descriptive statistics and methodology

Distribution of null subjects in the data set

Extra-linguistic factors

Collocation

Summary : Subject tokens and linguistic factors

Statistical method

Null subjects in ICE Great Britain : Logistic regression model

Model selection

Model evaluation

Results by factor groups

Coreferential coordination ("and")

Clause

Overview results ICE Great Britain

Null subjects in ICE Great Britain : First person contexts

Overview : Subject tokens and linguistic factors first person

Results first person

Summary and discussion

Discussion full data set

Discussion first person

Conclusion

Null subjects in Asian Englishes

Asian languages and varieties of English : Theory, description and comparison

Null subjects in Asian languages

Radical pro-drop

Topic prominence

Quantitative research on Chinese null subjects

Language contact and varieties of English

Language contact and contact languages

Null subjects revisited : Acquisition and contact

English in contact : World Englishes

Null subjects in (other) varieties of English

Asian varieties of English : Background and structure

English in India

English in Hong Kong

English in Singapore

Comparing varieties

Asian Englishes

The comparative variationist method

Empirical comparison : Null subjects in Asian Englishes

Linguistic factors in the Asian Englishes

The envelope of variation

Overview Asian Englishes : Descriptive statistics

Different distribution of null subjects in the data sets

Collocation : Asian Englishes

Summary subject tokens and linguistic factors : Asian Englishes

ICE India

Indian English : Extra-linguistic factors

Indian English : Logistic regression model

Indian English : First person contexts

Short summary : Null subjects in Indian English

ICE Hong Kong

Hong Kong English : Extra-linguistic factors

Hong Kong English : Logistic regression model

Hong Kong English : First person contexts

Short summary : Null subjects in Hong Kong English

Grammar of Spoken Singapore English Corpus

Singapore English : Extra-linguistic factors

Singapore English : Logistic regression model

Singapore English : First person contexts

Topic prominence in Singlish : Within and beyond the clause

Chinese-style topics

Topic chains

Discourse orientation and ambiguity

Repair

Code-switching?

Short summary : Null subjects in Singapore English

Summary and Discussion : Null subjects in Asian Englishes

Summary : Asian English null subjects

Variety specific contexts and puzzles

Substrate comparison : How Asian are Asian Englishes?

Discussion and Conclusion

Superstrata comparison : How English are Asian Englishes?

Comparative variationist measures : Results

Comparison : First person pronouns

Summary

Variable rules, variationist typology and language contact

Null subjects in non-NSL : Theoretical and methodological implications

Language contact and linguistic nativisation

References

Data

Additional statistics

Index.

Notes:

Revised thesis (doctoral)--University of Freiburg, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-273) and index.

ISBN:

9783110633436

3110633434

OCLC:

1119710552

Publisher Number:

9783110633436