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...
Christopher Koch, Tobias Bernaisch
Resorting to the South Asian Varieties of English (SAVE) corpus comprising acrolectal English language data from Bangladesh, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, the present paper investigates verb complementation in the six respective South Asian varieties of English. The lexicogramm...
Tobias Bernaisch, Sven Leuckert
Abstract To empirically trace functional characteristics of texts such as speaker/writer involvement, narrativity or persuasiveness with a view to potential (a) intra-national variability in Indian English and (b) short-term diachronic change in South Asian Englishes, the South Asian Varieties of En...