Countability in world Englishes

Hall, Christopher; Schmidtke, Daniel; Vickers, Jamie

doi:10.1111/weng.12001

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“…A similar point is made by Hall et al () in their study of countability in world Englishes. Using data from the Vienna Oxford Corpus of International English (VOICE) and data drawn from the web, they found that the treatment as countable of nouns which are classified as uncountable in standard British English, was rare, with a maximum usage rate of only 3.5 per cent.…”

Section: Language Contact – Non‐standard Forms and Code‐mixingsupporting

confidence: 80%

English in Southeast Asia: Pedagogical and policy implications

Kirkpatrick

2014

World Englishes

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The roles of English within and between the many of the countries which make up Southeast Asia are increasing, and English is constantly being used and negotiated as a mutual means of communication by Asian multilinguals for whom English is an additional language. It is timely, therefore, to consider ways in which these Englishes have been developing, along with the roles English is currently playing. Areas worthy of investigation include the influence of language contact and the motivations for the presence of non-standard forms in these new varieties of English. Given the recent research reviewed in this paper, the criteria by which the use of non-standard forms are classified as characteristic of the particular variety need to be revised. The paper will conclude by considering whether the role of English as a lingua franca in the region has reached its zenith and whether regional language education policy is likely allow the languages of Asia to thrive.

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Section: Language Contact – Non‐standard Forms and Code‐mixingsupporting

confidence: 80%

English in Southeast Asia: Pedagogical and policy implications

Kirkpatrick

2014

World Englishes

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“…Mass and count nouns have been examined in previous literature. To illustrate, in their study on Outer Circle, Expanding Circle and lingua franca Englishes, Hall, Schmidtke and Vickers (2013) investigated 19 mass nouns such as stuff in the VOICE corpus and 25 mass nouns such as equipment in various websites. Although Hall et al (2013) found considerable tokens of mass nouns used countably, such usage was extremely infrequent compared to the usage of mass nouns with mass syntax.…”

Section: Past Habitual Willmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To illustrate, in their study on Outer Circle, Expanding Circle and lingua franca Englishes, Hall, Schmidtke and Vickers (2013) investigated 19 mass nouns such as stuff in the VOICE corpus and 25 mass nouns such as equipment in various websites. Although Hall et al (2013) found considerable tokens of mass nouns used countably, such usage was extremely infrequent compared to the usage of mass nouns with mass syntax. To illustrate, Hall et al (2013) identified 152 tokens of the word stuff, of which only one was used with count syntax, while 151 was used in line with standard English norms.…”

Section: Past Habitual Willmentioning

confidence: 99%

Syntactic variation in Hong Kong English

Köylü

2024

English Today

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Kirkpatrick and Lixun (2021) maintain that two significant morphosyntactic processes have been at play in early Englishes. These are simplification and regularization. Simplification refers to the relatively simplified inflectional morphology in English today. Kirkpatrick and Lixun (2021) provide an example for the word stan (i.e., stone in Old English) that showed great differences in the singular and plural form in nominative, accusative, genitive and dative case in Old English. Another process is regularization, through which some of the strong verb forms for past tense in English have changed to take the weak or the regular form. To illustrate, the past tense of work was wrought but over time, it has changed to worked.

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“…Pluralization by use of the indefinite article was found by Cane (1994, p. 354 as cited in Schmidtke & Kuperman, 2017) in Brunei English giving the example of "And here's an advice for you all". In an extensive study using the world wide web as corpus through Google's advanced search function Hall et al (2013) compared the pluralization of mass nouns by British English speakers to that of non-native English speakers from 14 countries of the outer and expanding circle of Englishes. Their findings showed significant differences between native British English spearkers' pluralization (0.01%) and the pluralization of outer and expanding circle English speakers combined (2.22%).…”

Section: Pluralization Of Mass Nouns In Elfmentioning

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The Pluralization of Mass Nouns in European and Asian ELF

Tinkel

Deissl-O’Meara

2021

MAPEH

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English has become a global lingua franca unlike any language before. This has led to the increased pragmatic use of English by an increasing number of non-native speakers and, consequently, English as a lingua franca (ELF) has emerged. It has become a contact language between speakers of different mother tongues which has led to the blurring of strict regulatory frameworks formerly established by native English varieties. ELF speakers use English in creative ways and influenced by their native languages and cultures and the imitation of the native speaker has been pushed to the background in favor of successful communication. In order to facilitate the examination of this new type of English, several ELF corpora have been established, two of which are used for this study. The Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English (VOICE) and the Asian Corpus of English (ACE) are both collections of spoken interactions between ELF speakers that have the same size and rely on the same coding system and search parameters, which make them readily comparable. While these corpora have already aided in the discovery of several common features of ELF in general, this study focuses on the lexico-grammatical feature of the pluralization of mass nouns by either adding the ‘s’ or some type of quantifier in European and Asian ELF. Results show that Asian ELF speakers are less likely to pluralize mass nouns than European ELF speakers. Yet, pluralization can be found in both types of ELF and this, along with other specific, non-standard features, raises questions for English language teaching and the status of native English.

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Countability in world Englishes

Cited by 15 publications

References 35 publications

English in Southeast Asia: Pedagogical and policy implications

English in Southeast Asia: Pedagogical and policy implications

Syntactic variation in Hong Kong English

The Pluralization of Mass Nouns in European and Asian ELF

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