Structural Nativization in Indian English Lexicogrammar

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-272-0351-9
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, Band 46, 182 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 515 g

Reihe: Studies in Corpus Linguistics

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-word web-derived corpus of acrolectal Indian newspaper language and corresponding parts of the British National Corpus. The present corpus-based ‘thick description’ of lexicogrammatical routines provides new perspectives on the emergence of new routines and patternings in Indian English and is conceptually and methodologically relevant for research into varieties of English worldwide.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schilk, Marco

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Computerlinguistik, Korpuslinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachkontaktforschung
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Dialektologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
1. Introduction and overview
2. Aspects of structural nativization
3. Aspects of lexicogrammar: Collocation and verb-complementation
4. Methodology
5. GIVE
6. SEND
7. OFFER
8. Evaluation and discussion
9. Conclusion and prospects for future research
References
Index