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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789646003321

Autore

Schilk Marco

Titolo

Structural nativization in Indian English lexicogrammar [[electronic resource] /] / Marco Schilk

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011

ISBN

1-283-28053-1

9786613280534

90-272-8508-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (196 p.)

Collana

Studies in corpus linguistics (SCL), , 1388-0373 ; ; v. 46

Disciplina

427/.954

Soggetti

English language - India - Grammar

English language - India - Usage

Lexicology

Grammaticality (Linguistics)

Linguistic analysis (Linguistics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Structural Nativization in Indian English Lexicogrammar; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction and overview; 2. Aspects of structural nativization; 3. Aspects of lexicogrammar; 4. Methodology; 5. GIVE; 6. SEND; 7. OFFER; 8. Evaluation and discussion; 9. Conclusion and prospects for future research; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book contains the first in-depth corpus-based description of structural nativization at the lexis-grammar interface in Indian English, the largest institutionalized second-language variety of English world-wide. For a set of three ditransitive verbs give, send and offer -collocational patterns, verb-complementational preferences and correlations between collocational and verb-complementational routines are described. The present study is based on the comparison of the Indian and the British components of the International Corpus of English as well as a 100-million-wor