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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465762303321

Autore

Bruckmaier Elisabeth

Titolo

Getting at GET in world Englishes : a corpus-based semasiological-syntactic analysis / / Elisabeth Bruckmaier

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

3-11-049357-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (344 pages) : illustrations, graphs, tables

Collana

Topics in English Linguistics, , 1434-3452 ; ; Volume 95

Disciplina

410.188

Soggetti

Corpora (Linguistics)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of figures -- List of tables -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical and methodological framework -- 3. Issues and factors in the variation of GET in World Englishes -- 4. Analysis of surface forms of GET in World Englishes -- 5. Semasiological-syntactic analysis of GET in World Englishes -- 6. Discussion and summary -- 7. Conclusion and outlook -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Despite its exceptional frequency and versatility, GET has never been a focus of research in its entire variability, which goes from lexical to grammatical uses, nor in large amounts of data from different varieties of English. The present corpus-based study deals with over 11,600 tokens of GET in written and spoken language from three varieties of English and thus provides new insights for variationist linguistics. Firstly, it offers a comprehensive semasiological-syntactic analysis of GET, i.e. an analysis of all its meanings and all the constructions into which it enters, suggesting ten categories as being necessary for its complete description. Secondly, it contributes to the understanding of factors that are at work in variation in World Englishes and lead to quantitative differences between regional standard varieties. Thus, the present study demonstrates that the use of GET in the New Englishes analysed is less affected by substrate effects than by the effects of Second Language Acquisition and the varying influence of British and



American English norms. Moreover, it can be shown that the New Englishes display more grammatical uses of GET than does British English.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910696148503321

Titolo

'Active duty' alerts help protect military personnel from identity theft [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Office of Consumer & Business Education, , [2005]

Descrizione fisica

2 unnumbered pages : digital, PDF file

Collana

FTC consumer alert

Soggetti

Soldiers - United States - Finance, Personal

Credit ratings - United States

Identity theft - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on Sept. 25, 2007).

"July 2005"--P. [2].