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G. ;$v43 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-272-4903-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aTable of contents; International Corpus of English; Introduction; Off with their heads"; 1. Introduction; 2. The corpus-driven approach to TAM; 2.1 Tagging and chunking; 2.2 Beheaded verb groups; 2.3 Comparing observed and expected frequencies; 3. Corpus-driven results and analysis; 3.1 ICE-Fiji; 3.2 ICE-India; 3.3 ICE-New Zealand; 3.4 ICE-Ghana; 3.5 ICE-Great Britain; 4. Analysis of selected features; 4.1 Tense; 4.1.1 Lexical heads and tense; 4.1.2 Qualitative analysis: A case study on perfect constructions; 4.1.2.1 Past perfect.; 4.1.2.2 Present perfect.; 4.2 Modality; 4.3 The progressive 327 $a5. Conclusion References; Appendix; Modals and quasi-modals in New Englishes; 1. Introduction; 2. Recent diachronic trends; 3. The Englishes; 4. The data; 5. The Englishes compared; 6. Speech and writing compared; 7. The individual quasi-modals; 7.1 have to; 7.2 have got to; 7.3 be going to; 7.4 want to; 8. Conclusion; References; The diverging need (to)'s of Asian Englishes; 1. Introduction; 2. Need and need to in 1960's and 1990's British and American English; 3. A methodological preliminary: British English once more; 4. The needs of four Asian Englishes; 5. Conclusion; Acknowledgements 327 $aReferences Corpora; Will and would in selected New Englishes; 1. Introduction and previous research; 2. New Englishes selected; 3. Data and method; 4. Results and discussion; 4.1 Results and general findings; 4.2 Trinidadian English; 4.3 Jamaican English; 4.4 Bahamian English; 4.5 Fiji English; 4.6 Indian English; 4.7 Singapore English; 5. Conclusion and outlook; References; Progressives in Maltese English; 1. Introduction; 2. Outline and contextualization of Maltese English; 3. Previous research on progressives; 4. The variable: Definition and constraints; 5. Data; 6. Quantitative analysis 327 $a6.1 Maltese and British newspaper corpora6.2 Comparison of spoken and written corpus data; 7. Qualitative analysis; 8. Questionnaire data; 9. Conclusion; References; Mapping unity and diversity in South Asian English lexicogrammar; 1. Introduction: Unity and diversity in and across South Asian Englishes; 2. Verb-complementational patterns as parameters of variation; 3. Verb complementation of TCM-related verbs in South Asian Englishes; 3.1 The patterns of CONVEY, SUBMIT and SUPPLY?; 3.2 TCM-related verbs: previous studies of verb-complementational variation; 4. Corpus data 327 $a4.1 The international corpus of english (ICE)4.2 Web-derived newspaper corpora; 5. Analysis and results; 5.1 Verbs under scrutiny: CONVEY, SUBMIT and SUPPLY; 5.2 CONVEY in the ICE and SAVE corpora; 5.3 SUBMIT in the ICE and SAVE corpora; 5.4 SUPPLY in the ICE and SAVE corpora; 6. Discussion and conclusion; References; Particle verbs across first and second language varieties of English; 1. Introduction: Unity and diversity in World Englishes; 2. Particle verbs in first and second language varieties of English; 3. Methodology; 3.1 Corpus data - the International Corpus of English 327 $a3.2 Particle verbs with up 330 $aThis volume presents a collection of in-depth cross-varietal studies on a broad spectrum of grammatical features in English varieties spoken all over the world. The contributions explore the structural unity and diversity of New Englishes and thus investigate central aspects of dialect evolution and language change. Moreover, this volume offers new insights into the question as to what constrains new dialect formation, and examines universal trends across a wide range of contact situations. 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