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Comparative studies in Australian and New Zealand English grammar and beyond [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Pam Peters, Peter Collins, Adam Smith
| Comparative studies in Australian and New Zealand English grammar and beyond [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Pam Peters, Peter Collins, Adam Smith |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 406 p.) : ill |
| Disciplina | 427/.994 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
PetersPam
CollinsPeter <1950-> SmithAdam |
| Collana | Varieties of English around the world |
| Soggetto topico |
English language - Australia - Grammar
English language - New Zealand - Grammar Grammar, Comparative and general Language and culture |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-282-24522-8
9786612245220 90-272-8940-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455315703321 |
| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Comparative studies in Australian and New Zealand English grammar and beyond [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Pam Peters, Peter Collins, Adam Smith
| Comparative studies in Australian and New Zealand English grammar and beyond [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Pam Peters, Peter Collins, Adam Smith |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 406 p.) : ill |
| Disciplina | 427/.994 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
PetersPam
CollinsPeter <1950-> SmithAdam |
| Collana | Varieties of English around the world |
| Soggetto topico |
English language - Australia - Grammar
English language - New Zealand - Grammar Grammar, Comparative and general Language and culture |
| ISBN |
1-282-24522-8
9786612245220 90-272-8940-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778600803321 |
| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Comparative studies in Australian and New Zealand English grammar and beyond / / edited by Pam Peters, Peter Collins, Adam Smith
| Comparative studies in Australian and New Zealand English grammar and beyond / / edited by Pam Peters, Peter Collins, Adam Smith |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 406 p.) : ill |
| Disciplina | 427/.994 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
PetersPam
CollinsPeter <1950-> SmithAdam |
| Collana | Varieties of English around the world |
| Soggetto topico |
English language - Australia - Grammar
English language - New Zealand - Grammar Grammar, Comparative and general Language and culture |
| ISBN |
1-282-24522-8
9786612245220 90-272-8940-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Comparative Studies in Australian and New Zealand English -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- List of abbreviations -- List of contributors -- Prologue -- 1. Previous grammatical studies of AusE and NZE -- 2. The present volume -- 3. Corpus-based approaches -- 4. Structure of the volume -- 4.1 Section I ("Morphology") -- 4.2 Section II ("Verbs and Verb Phrases") -- 4.3 Section III ("Nouns and Noun Phrases") -- 4.4 Section IV ("Clauses and Sentences") -- 4.5 Section V ("Discourse") -- References -- Section I. Morphology -- Irregular verbs -- 1. Introduction: Movements in the English verb system -- 2. Modeling and analyzing the directions of change -- 3. Using ICE-corpus data, written and spoken -- 4. Frequencies of nonstandard past verb forms used with sing/sang/sung verbs -- 5. Frequencies of standard -ed and nonstandardized -t for verbs with variable past forms -- 6. Sociolinguistic variation in verbal preferences, especially on the age spectrum -- 7. Conclusions -- References -- Pronoun forms -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data sources and methodology -- 3. Results -- 3.1 Conjoined pronouns -- 3.2 Pronouns in identificational constructions, clefts, and than-comparatives -- 3.3 Possessive me -- 3.4 Demonstrative them and us NP -- 3.5 2pl variants -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Hypocoristics in New Zealand and Australian English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Functions of hypocoristics -- 3. Sources of hypocoristics and their contexts of use -- 4. Hypocoristics of placenames -- 5. Ways of forming hypocoristics: Derivation, grammar and meaning -- 6. Distribution of hypocoristics -- 7. Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Some Australian hypocoristics for placenames and institutions -- References -- Section II. Verbs and verb phrases -- Modals and quasi-modals -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Recent changes: Quasi-modals on the rise.
3. The corpora -- 4. Frequencies across the regional varieties -- 5. Frequencies across speech and writing -- 6. The individual quasi-modals -- 6.1 Have to -- 6.2 Have got to -- 6.3 Need to -- 6.4 Be going to -- 6.5 Want to -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- The perfect and the preterite in Australian and New Zealand English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The perfect and the preterite in AusE and NZE -- 3. AusE and NZE in the company of the other national varieties -- 4. Data from Australian Style -- 5. Summing up -- References -- The progressive -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Previous corpus-based studies -- 3. The corpora -- 4. Progressive aspectuality -- 5. The growth of the progressive -- 6. Grammatical features -- 6.1 Forms of the progressive -- 6.2 Clause type -- 7. Special pragmatic uses -- 8. Contraction -- 9. Conclusion -- References -- The mandative subjunctive in spoken English -- 1. Introduction: A vexed construction -- 2. Previous corpus-based studies of the mandative subjunctive in British and American English -- 3. Variation in postcolonial Englishes in their use of the mandative subjunctive -- 4. Written vs. spoken use of the mandative subjunctive -- 5. Spoken and written data from six ICE corpora -- 6. Matrix verbs for the mandative subjunctive across six ICE corpora -- 7. Spoken contexts for the use of the mandative subjunctive -- 8. The future of the mandative subjunctive in world English -- References -- Light verbs in Australian, New Zealand and British English -- 1. Definition of "light verb" -- 2. Evidence for regional divergence -- 2.1 Research studies -- 2.2 Dictionary evidence -- 3. Frequency of common light verbs in the ICE corpora -- 3.1 Spoken vs written -- 3.2 Regional and temporal differences -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Section III. Nouns and noun phrases -- Non-numerical quantifiers -- 1. Introduction. 2. Classification of NNQs -- 3. Issues that apply to NNQs -- 3.1 Grammar: Verbal agreement and noun complementation -- 3.2 Collocation -- 3.3 Semantic weight -- 3.4 Variation -- 4. Previous corpus studies -- 5. Corpus findings -- 5.1 A lot/lots of -- 5.2 ONNQs that have a singular or plural quantifying noun -- 6. NNQs with singular or plural forms only -- 7. Conclusions -- References -- Appendix 1 -- From chairman to chairwoman to chairperson -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Women, men and social salience -- 3. Occupational terms -- 3.1 Contextual considerations -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- Section IV. Clauses and sentences -- Concord with collective nouns in Australian and New Zealand English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Previous research and hypotheses -- 2.1 Diachronic variation -- 2.2 Regional variation -- 2.3 Stylistic variation -- 2.4 Language-internal variation -- 3. Corpus data -- 3.1 Definition of the variable -- 3.2 Results and discussion -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- No in the lexicogrammar of English -- 1. Introduction: Expressing negation -- 2. Research on the uses of no in contemporary English -- 3. Source material used in this study -- 4. Preliminary identification of reaction signals -- 5. Types of no collocation found in speech and writingLet -- 6. Relative frequency of no collocations and not any paraphrases -- 7. Freshly created no collocations -- 8. Conclusions -- References -- Appendix -- Zero complementizer, syntactic context, and regional variety -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The predictions of syntactic theory -- 3. Non-syntactic factors in the occurrence of zero complementizer -- 4. Description of the corpus and results for general syntactic factors -- 5. Noun complement clauses -- 6. Description of the data and results for noun complement clauses -- 7. Concluding remarks -- References. Infinitival and gerundial complements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Gerunds and infinitives in written English: The Brown family of corpora -- 2.1 help + infinitive -- 2.2 prevent/stop + NP + (from) + gerund -- 2.3 start and begin in catenative uses -- 3. Gerunds and infinitives in spoken English: Data from three ICE corpora -- 3.1 help + infinitive -- 3.2 prevent/stop + NP + (from) + gerund -- 3.3 start and begin in catenative uses -- 4. The regional factor in context: Medium, style and lexical incidence -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Commas and connective adverbs -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The problem -- 3. Properties of connective adverbs -- 4. Commas and connective adverbs -- 5. "One sentence or two?" -- 6. Towards a semantic explanation -- References -- Section V. Discourse -- Information-packaging constructions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The corpora -- 3. Some diachronic trends -- 4. Regional and stylistic variation -- 5. Existentials -- 6. Extraposition -- 7. Clefts -- 7.1 It-clefts -- 7.2 Basic pseudo-clefts -- 7.3 Reversed pseudo-clefts -- 8. Conclusion -- References -- Like and other discourse markers* -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Discourse markers -- 3. Quantitative data -- 4. Constructions with like: Competing analyses -- 4.1 Like as a marker of intimacy and solidarity, especially among teenagers -- 4.2 Like as a marker of loose talk -- 4.3 Like as a discourse marker -- 5. The speakers -- 5.1 Australian speakers -- 5.2 New Zealand speakers -- 6. Constructions with like -- 6.1 The functions of like (DM) in three sentence locations -- 7. Clause-initial like (DM) -- 8. Clause medial like (DM) -- 9. Clause-final like (DM) -- 10. Like in combination with other DMs -- 11. Conclusion -- References -- Final but in Australian English conversation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The origins of Final Particle but in AusE -- 3. Data -- 4. Final Particle but in AusE. 4.1 Final Hanging but -- 4.2 Final Particle but -- 4.3 Summary -- 5. Comprehending Final but in contemporary AusE -- 6. Social meaning of Final but in contemporary AusE -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Swearing -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What is swearing? -- 3. Why do we swear? -- 3.1 The expletive function -- 3.2 Swearing as abuse or insult -- 3.3 The social function of swearing -- 3.4 Stylistic functions of swearing -- 4. Swearwords as discourse particles -- 5. The evolution of swearing patterns - what is offensive changes over time -- 6. Swearing is ever changing, but here to stay -- References -- Epilogue -- 1. Differentiation among varieties of English -- 2. Reflexes of BrE persisting in AusE and NZE -- 3. Similarities between AusE and NZE grammar: An antipodean standard? -- 4. Differences between AusE and NZE lexicogrammar: Independent national characteristics -- 5. Register differentiation in AusE and NZE via the ICE corpora -- 6. Corpus-based analysis and sociolinguistic variation -- 7. Conclusions: Larger evolutionary trends in AusE, NZE and world English -- References -- Index -- The series Varieties of English Around the World. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910826528603321 |
| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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