Into-causatives in World Englishes

IF 0.8 4区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Thomas W. Brunner
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The paper analyses the frequency and use of the relatively rare, yet highly productive into-causative construction in twenty varieties of English on the basis of the 1.9-billion word Corpus of Web-based Global English (GloWbE; Davies 2013)1 and Schneider’s (2007) Dynamic Model. It hypothesises differences in frequency, variation in the preference for particularly frequent fillers as well as productivity differences in line with Schneider’s stages of linguistic evolution. However, it shows that only frequency differences reflect the Dynamic Model; with regard to the preference for frequent realisations and productivity, postcolonial varieties turn out to be very similar to British English. These results come as a surprise against the background of similar studies of the way-construction, where all of these effects have been documented convincingly. It is argued that the properties of into-causatives themselves (e.g. their idiomatic and semantic simplicity) might contribute to their more native-like usage patterns in postcolonial varieties of English.
世界英语中的致使句
本文以19亿词的全球网络英语语料库(GloWbE;Davies 2013)1和Schneider’s(2007)动态模型。它假设频率的差异,对特别频繁的填充物的偏好的变化,以及与施耐德的语言进化阶段一致的生产力差异。但结果表明,只有频率差才能反映动态模型;就对频繁实现和生产力的偏好而言,后殖民时期的英语变体与英式英语非常相似。这些结果令人惊讶,因为在类似的道路建设研究的背景下,所有这些影响都有令人信服的记录。有人认为,成使役本身的特性(如其习惯和语义的简单性)可能有助于它们在后殖民时期的英语变体中更像母语的使用模式。
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English World-Wide
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期刊介绍: English World-Wide has established itself as the leading and most comprehensive journal dealing with varieties of English. The focus is on scholarly discussions of new findings in the dialectology and sociolinguistics of the English-speaking communities (native and second-language speakers), but general problems of sociolinguistics, creolistics, language planning, multilingualism and modern historical sociolinguistics are included if they have a direct bearing on modern varieties of English. Although teaching problems are normally excluded, English World-Wide provides important background information for all those involved in teaching English throughout the world.
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