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- Title
Grammatical variation in World Englishes: An onomasiological study.
- Authors
Collins, Peter
- 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.
- Subjects
SOUTH Asia; ENGLISH language in foreign countries; AMERICAN English language; ENGLISH language; BRITISH Americans
- Publication
English World-Wide, 2023, Vol 44, Issue 2, p184
- ISSN
0172-8865
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/eww.21055.col