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Title

Structural nativization in Indian English lexicogrammar / Marco Schilk.

Author

Schilk, Marco.

Publication

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2011.

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Description

xii, 182 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in corpus linguistics ; v. 46

Uniform Title

Studies in corpus linguistics ; v. 46.

Subject

• Lexicology
• English language > India > Grammar
• English language > India > Usage
• Grammaticality (Linguistics)
• Linguistic analysis (Linguistics)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction and overview -- 1.1.Introduction -- 1.2.Structural nativization in Indian English lexicogrammar: Preview -- ch. 2 Aspects of structural nativization -- 2.1.From English in India to Indian English -- 2.2.Models of World Englishes: The situation of Indian English today -- 2.2.1.Static and dynamic models of World Englishes -- 2.2.2.Indian English in the dynamic evolutionary model: Aspects of ongoing nativization and endonormative stabilization -- 2.3.Different influences on structural nativization -- ch. 3 Aspects of lexicogrammar: Collocation and verb-complementation -- 3.1.Introduction -- The interdependence of lexis and grammar -- 3.2.Collocation -- 3.2.1.Introduction -- 3.2.2.Quantitative approaches to collocations -- 3.2.3.Phraseological approaches to collocations -- 3.2.4.Collocations in Indian English -- 3.2.5.Collocation in the lexis-grammar continuum -- 3.3.Verb-complementation -- 3.3.1.Introduction -- 3.3.2.Verb-complementation in descriptive grammar (Quirk et al. 1985) and corpus-based descriptive grammar (Biber et al. 1999) -- 3.3.3.Verb-complementation in cognitive grammar and construction grammar -- 3.3.4.Verb-complementation in Indian English -- ch. 4 Methodology -- 4.1.Introduction: A corpus-based description of structural nativization in Indian English lexicogrammar -- 4.2.Corpora and tools -- 4.2.1.The International Corpus of English -- The British and Indian components (ICE-GB and ICE-India) -- 4.2.2.The Times of India corpus -- 4.2.3.Corpus analysis software: WordSmith Tools V4.x -- 4.3.Verb-complementational profiles -- 4.4.Collocational profiles -- 4.5.Verbs under scrutiny: GIVE, SEND and OFFER -- A quantitative overview -- 4.6.Summary -- ch. 5 Give -- 5.1.Introduction: GIVE as a prototypical ditransitive verb -- 5.2.Distribution of complementation patterns in different text categories -- 5.3.Verb-complementational patterns of GIVE in spoken Indian and British English -- 5.4.Verb-complementational patterns of GIVE in written Indian and British English -- 5.5.Collocational profiles of GIVE in Indian and British English -- 5.6.GIVE: A brief summary -- ch. 6 Send -- 6.1.Introduction: SEND as a less-prototypical ditransitive verb -- 6.2.An overview of the verb-complementation patterns of SEND in ICE-GB and ICE-India -- 6.3.Distribution of complementation patterns in different text categories -- 6.4.Verb-complementational patterns of SEND in spoken Indian and British English -- 6.5.Verb-complementational patterns of SEND in written Indian and British English -- 6.6.SEND in the International Corpus of English: A synopsis -- 6.7.Verb-complementational patterns of SEND in Indian and British newspaper English -- 6.8.Collocational profiles of SEND in Indian and British newspaper English -- 6.9.SEND in Indian and British newspaper English: A brief summary -- ch. 7 Offer -- 7.1.Introduction: OFFER as a low-frequency ditransitive verb -- 7.2.Verb-complementational patterns of OFFER in spoken and written Indian and British English -- 7.3.OFFER in British and Indian newspaper English -- 7.4.Collocational profiles of OFFER in Indian and British newspaper English -- 7.5.OFFER: A brief summary -- 7.6.Analysis of GIVE, SEND and OFFER -- Concluding remarks -- ch. 8 Evaluation and discussion -- 8.1.Introduction -- 8.2.Evaluation of the analysis -- 8.2.1.Corpora and software -- 8.2.2.Verb-complementational patterns -- 8.2.3.Collocational profiles -- 8.3.Discussion -- 8.3.1.Introduction -- 8.3.2.Od-collocate analysis and collostructional analysis -- 8.3.3.Lexicogrammatical variation in varieties of English -- 8.4.Towards a model of lexicogrammatical nativization -- ch. 9 Conclusion and prospects for future research -- 9.1.Conclusion -- 9.2.Prospects for future research.

ISBN

• 9789027203519 (alk. paper)
• 9027203512 (alk. paper)
• 9789027285089 (eb) (canceled/invalid)
• 902728508X (eb) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2011018552

OCLC

• 720635035
• SCSB-11365866

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