Grammatical change in English world-wide / edited by Peter Collins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Collins, Peter, 1950- editor.

Series:

Studies in corpus linguistics ; Volume 67.

Studies in Corpus Linguistics (SCL), 1388-0373 ; Volume 67

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Globalization.

English language.

English language--Variation--English-speaking countries.

English language--Variation--Foreign countries.

Linguistic change--Globalization.

Linguistic change.

Intercultural communication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (494 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This chapter examines the use of the progressive aspect in Black South African English (BSAfE) since the late 19th century in corpora of fiction and newspapers. Previous research points to on-going change in native varieties and the extension to stative contexts in non-native varieties of English. The findings are: There has been a consistent increase in the frequency of the construction. Stative and achievement verbs are used in the progressive aspect proportionally more often in BSAfE than in native varieties. The progressive with stative verbs encodes states of longer duration alongside the

Contents:

""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""

""3.2 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 (Â3.1)""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index at the end of each chapters.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027268907

9027268908

OCLC:

897001908