The subjunctive alternation in Indian English

IF 0.8 2区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

World Englishes Pub Date : 2024-05-25 DOI:10.1111/weng.12683

Karola Schmidt

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Abstract

The study at hand is an exploration of the alternation between the mandative subjunctive and its equivalent modal construction with the verb should in Indian English. The study complements the growing body of research on the morphosyntax of the variety and it enhances our understanding of the relatively under‐researched alternation. It adds a special focus on the short‐term diachronic development of the subjunctive alternation in Indian English by using data from the South Asian Varieties of English corpus and its 2020 update. The following research questions are being investigated in the paper: Which factors influence the alternation between subjunctive and should in Indian English; are there short‐term diachronic adjustments to the subjunctive paradigm? A multifactorial model was fitted on 508 extracted data points with the following predictors: lexical diversity, newspaper, word count, distance, gender, linking word, negation, subject number, subject person, time and trigger lemma. The results show minor diachronic adjustments and highlight well‐known predictors of the alternation like voice as important factors.

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印度英语中的交替副词

本研究探讨的是印度英语中 "should"（应该）动词与 "mandative subjunctive"（命令式从句）及其等效情态结构之间的交替。该研究补充了对该语种形态句法日益增多的研究，并加深了我们对这一研究相对不足的交替现象的理解。通过使用南亚英语变体语料库及其 2020 年更新版中的数据，本研究特别关注印度英语中从句交替的短期异时发展。本文将探讨以下研究问题：哪些因素会影响印度英语中的从句和应句交替；从句范式是否存在短期的非同步调整？对提取的 508 个数据点进行了多因素模型拟合，预测因素如下：词汇多样性、报纸、字数、距离、性别、关联词、否定、主语数、主语人称、时间和触发词法。结果显示了轻微的非同步调整，并强调了语音等众所周知的交替预测因子是重要因素。

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