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...
Clews, Madeleine
We are fortunate that the Late Modern English period is no longer, as once described by Jones (1989: 279), a ‘Cinderella’ of historical linguistics. Emerging methodologies in historical sociolinguistics have enabled increasing attention to be focused on this era, with corpus-based work giving new in...