Linguistic innovations in EFL and ESL: Rethinking the linguistic creativity of non-native English speakers

Deshors, Sandra C.; Götz, Sandra; Laporte, Samantha

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“…However, beyond the outer circle, Hall et al (2013: 20) show that nonstandard pluralization is very infrequent in ELF contexts, concluding that the feature is not helpful in distinguishing ENL from "non-native" varieties, generally. As inner circle and expanding circle are similar for this feature, it can add a new, unexpected pattern to the study of the gradience from ENL to ESL and EFL (Mukherjee and Hundt 2011;Deshors et al 2016;Schneider and Gilquin 2016;Meriläinen and Paulasto 2017).…”

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Pluralized non-count nouns across Englishes: A corpus-linguistic approach to variety types

Schneider

Hundt

Schreier

2019

Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory

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This corpus-based study of pluralized non-count nouns (informations, advices, etc.) uses collocation-derived measures (determiners vs. bare noun and mass quantifiers) to extract potential candidates of non-count nouns in a bottom-up approach from the British National Corpus (BNC), allowing the detection of grammatical categories from distributional features. We then use this token list to retrieve data on pluralization of non-counts from nine annotated components of the International Corpus of English (ICE). While the distinction between count and non-count nouns is gradient rather than categorical, it is still possible to distinguish between standard and non-standard pluralization of non-counts. Qualitative analyses of our data show that non-standard pluralization of non-count nouns is regularly attested in second-language varieties, including previously unrecorded types; however, it is also occasionally found in first-language varieties. We discuss implications of our corpus results for common explanations of pluralized non-count nouns, such as substrate influence, language learning effects and historical input. By combining a bottom-up corpus-based approach with fine-grained qualitative analyses we can provide a more nuanced view of pluralization of non-counts across ENL and ESL for the investigation of World Englishes.

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Section: Pluralized Non-count Nouns In Wementioning

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Pluralized non-count nouns across Englishes: A corpus-linguistic approach to variety types

Schneider

Hundt

Schreier

2019

Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory

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“…It is assumed that those different contexts (wider society for ESL vs. classrooms for EFL) are likely to give rise to different orientation to norms: in this framework, ESL is viewed as norm-developing whereas EFL is viewed as norm-dependent (Kachru 1985). Put differently, societies where English is spoken as an ESL provide ample opportunities for speakers to use the language, which results in the spread and conventionalization of non-standard forms within the speech community (van Rooy 2010, 2011, Deshors et al 2016. In EFL contexts, however, non-standard forms are generally equated with 'deficiency' (Deshors 2017;see Deshors et al 2016 for an in-depth discussion on errors vs. innovations in the speech of EFL and ESL users).…”

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Revisiting the ENL-ESL-EFL continuum: A multifactorial approach to grammatical aspect in spoken Englishes

2018

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This study focuses on the progressive vs. non-progressive alternation to revisit the debate on the ENL-ESL-EFL continuum (i.e. whether native (ENL) and nonnative (ESL/EFL) Englishes are dichotomous types of English or form a gradient continuum). While progressive marking is traditionally studied independently of its unmarked counterpart, we examine (i) how the grammatical contexts of both constructions systematically affect speakers’ constructional choices in ENL (American, British), ESL (Indian, Nigerian and Singaporean) and EFL (Finnish, French and Polish learner Englishes) and (ii) what light speakers’ varying constructional choices bring to the continuum debate. Methodologically, we use a clustering technique to group together individual varieties of English (i.e. to identify similarities and differences between those varieties) based on linguistic contextual features such as AKTIONSART, ANIMACY, SEMANTIC DOMAIN (of aspect-bearing lexical verb), TENSE, MODALITY and VOICE to assess the validity of the ENL-ESL-EFL classification for our data. Then, we conduct a logistic regression analysis (based on lemmas observed in both progressive and non-progressive constructions) to explore how grammatical contexts influence speakers’ constructional choices differently across English types. While, overall, our cluster analysis supports the ENL-ESL-EFL classification as a useful theoretical framework to explore cross-variety variation, the regression shows that, when we start digging into the specific linguistic contexts of (non-)progressive constructions, this classification does not systematically transpire in the data in a uniform manner. Ultimately, by including more than one statistical technique into their exploration of the continuum, scholars could avoid potential methodological biases.

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“…A major difference between them can be summarized in terms of the distinction between innovation and propagation (Van Rooy ; Deshors et al. ). The former refers to a process whereby a new feature is added to the feature pool, and the latter to the spread and entrenchment of this feature in the speech community (based on Croft ).…”

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The progressive form in learner Englishes: Examining variation across corpora

Meriläinen

2017

World Englishes

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This article examines the English progressive form and its functions in learner English, thereby addressing the call by Mukherjee and Hundt (2011) to bring Expanding Circle Englishes and the parallels between English as a foreign language (EFL) and English as a second language (ESL) onto the agenda of English linguistics. By comparing the frequencies and functions of the progressive form in corpus data from different types of learners, this study investigates the variation induced by L1‐influence, mode of communication, proficiency differences and differing degrees of exposure to English. The results reveal similarities between learner English and both second language and native language Englishes, and support the notion of a continuum between learner English and second language varieties of English.

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Linguistic innovations in EFL and ESL: Rethinking the linguistic creativity of non-native English speakers

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Pluralized non-count nouns across Englishes: A corpus-linguistic approach to variety types

Pluralized non-count nouns across Englishes: A corpus-linguistic approach to variety types

Revisiting the ENL-ESL-EFL continuum: A multifactorial approach to grammatical aspect in spoken Englishes

The progressive form in learner Englishes: Examining variation across corpora

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