Particle verbs across first and second language varieties of English

Zipp, Lena; Bernaisch, Tobias; Hundt, Marianne; Gut, Ulrike

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“…While the NL corpus does not show less variation in the number of different verb types used with progressive marking (Table ), it does concentrate progressive marking on the commonest of these types (Table ). This ties in with claims that learners may stick to what they know, relying heavily on known verb–form combinations (Gilquin & Granger ; Zipp & Bernaisch ). With respect to expectation 4, that the ESL varieties will show greater lexical variation, the results are mixed.…”

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The progressive aspect in the Netherlands and the ESL/EFL continuum

Edwards

2014

World Englishes

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This paper responds to calls to (i) approach varieties of English as a native (ENL), second (ESL) and foreign (EFL) language in an integrated fashion, and (ii) widen the scope of world Englishes analyses to the Expanding Circle. It describes the development of the Corpus of 'Dutch English', the first Expanding Circle corpus incorporating all text types in the written components of the ICE corpora. This corpus has implications for the description of English in the Netherlands in particular and for the investigation of ESL and EFL varieties in general. The paper then reports on a case study of the progressive aspect in this corpus compared to several ENL and ESL varieties. The results show no strict divide between the ESL varieties and the Corpus of Dutch English, which in fact displayed characteristics of both EFL and ESL. These findings provide further evidence in favour of an ESL-EFL continuum rather than a strict divide between varietal types.

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The progressive aspect in the Netherlands and the ESL/EFL continuum

Edwards

2014

World Englishes

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“…For SLE, selected objects of investigation on the lexicogrammatical (e.g. the verb‐complementational profile of GIVE, as in Mukherjee , and OFFER, Bernaisch , particle verbs, Mendis ; Zipp & Bernaisch or light‐verb constructions, Kumara & Gunawardhana ), and on the syntactic level (e.g. BE variation, Herat , or zero copula (Herat )) have been studied and point to a distinctive structural profile of SLE, but for the remainder of the South Asian Englishes, hardly any empirical documentation is available.…”

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Attitudes towards Englishes in India

Bernaisch

Koch

2015

World Englishes

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With the help of a survey building on 13 bipolar pairs arranged on a six‐point semantic differential scale, the present paper studies Indian English speakers’ attitudes towards their local variety Indian English contrastively by simultaneously examining their attitudes towards American English, British English and Sri Lankan English. The results show that although Indian speakers of English display a positive attitude towards Indian English, which is most pronounced with the group of young female informants possibly leading an ongoing linguistic change in India, the informants view British English in a more favourable light. In addition, Indian English speakers show the least positive attitude towards Sri Lankan English, which may be an indication of mutual attitudinal demarcation between the two neighbour varieties.

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“…If we zoom out to a wider perspective on the global English-speaking diaspora, even less is understood about PV variation, whether in other native, or "Inner Circle" (Kachru, 1992) varieties such as Canadian or Australian English, or more established "Outer Circle" varieties such as Indian or Philippines English. To the extent that PVs have been investigated in this domain, researchers have focused mainly on overall frequencies of PVs across varieties and/or genres (e.g., Zipp & Bernaisch, 2012) but have said little about variability in the choice between the two PV variants. Still, PVs are notoriously challenging for L2 learners, especially for speakers whose first language lacks particle constructions (e.g., González, 2010;Liao & Fukuya, 2004;Siyanova & Schmitt, 2007), but there is some evidence that proficient L2 users can achieve native-like performance with respect to the influence of certain features (e.g., Blais & Gonnerman, 2013;Gilquin, 2014).…”

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Mapping out particle placement in Englishes around the world: A study in comparative sociolinguistic analysis

Grafmiller

Szmrecsanyi

2018

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This study explores variability in particle placement across nine varieties of English around the globe, utilizing data from the International Corpus of English and the Global Corpus of Web-based English. We introduce a quantitative approach for comparative sociolinguistics that integrates linguistic distance metrics and predictive modeling, and use these methods to examine the development of regional patterns in grammatical constraints on particle placement in World Englishes. We find a high degree of uniformity among the conditioning factors influencing particle placement in native varieties (e.g., British, Canadian, and New Zealand English), while English as a second language varieties (e.g., Indian and Singaporean English) exhibit a high degree of dissimilarity with the native varieties and with each other. We attribute the greater heterogeneity among second language varieties to the interaction between general L2 acquisition processes and the varying sociolinguistic contexts of the individual regions. We argue that the similarities in constraint effects represent compelling evidence for the existence of a shared variable grammar and variation among grammatical systems is more appropriately analyzed and interpreted as a continuum rather than multiple distinct grammars.

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Particle verbs across first and second language varieties of English

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The progressive aspect in the Netherlands and the ESL/EFL continuum

The progressive aspect in the Netherlands and the ESL/EFL continuum

Attitudes towards Englishes in India

Mapping out particle placement in Englishes around the world: A study in comparative sociolinguistic analysis

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