Grammatical variation in World Englishes

IF 0.8 4区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

English World-Wide Pub Date : 2022-11-07 DOI:10.1075/eww.21055.col

P. Collins

引用次数: 2

Abstract

This study adopts an onomasiological, alternation-based approach to the exploration of grammatical variation across World Englishes, using data sourced from the 1.9 billion-word Global Web-based English corpus. The macro-orientation of the study, which investigates a set of ten alternations known to be susceptible to diachronic change, facilitates identification of a number of general trends, including the typical advancement of the Inner Circle varieties and of the South-East Asian varieties, the hypercentrality of American English, and the epicentrality of Indian English in South Asia. Possible explanatory factors include colloquialisation, grammatical simplicity/complexity, developmental status, and areal proximity.

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世界英语中的语法变异

本研究采用了一种象形学的、基于交替的方法来探索世界英语的语法变化，使用了来自19亿单词的全球网络英语语料库的数据。这项研究的宏观取向，调查了十种已知易受历时变化影响的变体，有助于确定一些总体趋势，包括内圈变体和东南亚变体的典型进步，美国英语的超中心性，以及印度英语在南亚的震中性。可能的解释因素包括口语化、语法简单性/复杂性、发展状况和地域邻近性。

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