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Morphological simplification in Asian Englishes : frequency, substratum transfer, and institutionalization ...
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This book presents a corpus- and usage-based approach to morphological simplification in three Asian Englishes (Hong Kong English, Indian English, and Singapore English). The features of interest are omission of verbal past tense marking, omission of nominal plural marking, regularization of irregular verbs, and the use of uncountable nouns as countable nouns. Usage frequency, substratum transfer, and institutionalization are investigated as potential determinants of simplification. Of particular interest is the question in how far substratum transfer and institutionalization constrain frequency effects. To account for the production of the features of interest, the International Corpus of English (ICE) and the Corpus of Global Web-Based English (GloWbE) are used. A perception experiment accompanying the corpus studies on verbal past tense and nominal plural marking provides additional insights into the perception of morphological simplification in the Asian Englishes considered. The impact of usage ...
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400; 410; 420; BG 2480
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URL: https://freidok.uni-freiburg.de/data/17386
https://dx.doi.org/10.6094/978-3-928969-74-1
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