Tobias Bernaisch, Stefan Τh. Gries, Joybrato Mukherjee
The present paper focuses on the modelling of cross-varietal differences and similarities in South Asian English(es) and British English at the level of verb complementation. Specifically, we analyse the dative alternation with GIVE, i.e. the alternation between the double-object construction ( John...
Sebastian Hoffmann, Marianne Hundt, Joybrato Mukherjee
In research into New Englishes, it has been suggested that English has turned into a genuinely pluricentric language in the late 20th century and that various regionally relevant norm-developing centres have emerged that exert an influence on the formation and development of the English language in ...
Marianne Hundt, Sebastian Hoffmann, Joybrato Mukherjee
This paper studies the distribution and usage patterns in hypothetical if -clauses in a set of South Asian Englishes (SAEs), namely Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Sri Lankan English on the basis of web-derived newspaper data. Comparative evidence comes from newspaper texts in the British Nationa...