The Lexis and Lexicogrammar of Sri Lankan English
Tobias Bernaisch
[Varieties of English Around the World, G54] 2015. xiv, 248 pp.
Tobias Bernaisch
List of John Benjamins publications for which Tobias Bernaisch plays a role.
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Subjects Corpus linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2022 Intensifying and downtoning in South Asian Englishes: Empirical perspectives English World-Wide 43:1, pp. 33–65 | Article
As studies on socio-pragmatics in South Asian Englishes and – more generally – postcolonial Englishes are still rare, the present study analyses how age, formality of context, gender, topic of the conversation and type-token ratio of a given speaker influence intensifiers and downtoners in… read more
2018 A corpus-linguistic account of the history of the genitive alternation in Singapore English Modeling World Englishes: Assessing the interplay of emancipation and globalization of ESL varieties, Deshors, Sandra C. (ed.), pp. 245–280 | Chapter
In this paper, we are exploring the history of the genitive alternation (of- vs. s-genitive) in Singapore English based on corpus data covering both British English (as the historical input variety) and Singapore English (as the target variety whose diachronic development we are interested in).… read more
2016 Exploring epicentres empirically: Focus on South Asian Englishes English World-Wide 37:1, pp. 1–25 | Article
The present paper studies the dative alternation with GIVE, i.e. the alternation between the double-object construction (e.g. John gave Mary a book) and the prepositional dative (e.g. John gave a book to Mary), in relation to the norms underlying this constructional choice in six South Asian… read more
2015 Cultural keywords in context: A pilot study of linguistic acculturation in South Asian Englishes Grammatical Change in English World-Wide, Collins, Peter (ed.), pp. 411–436 | Article
The present study focuses on lexicogrammatical routines of South Asian Englishes that are associated with so-called ‘cultural keywords’. These routines are particularly significant manifestations of the overarching process of the linguistic acculturation of the English language in new postcolonial… read more
2014 The dative alternation in South Asian English(es): Modelling predictors and predicting prototypes English World-Wide 35:1, pp. 7–31 | Article
The present paper focuses on the modelling of cross-varietal differences and similarities in South Asian English(es) and British English at the level of verb complementation. Specifically, we analyse the dative alternation with GIVE, i.e. the alternation between the double-object construction (John… read more
2012 Mapping unity and diversity in South Asian English lexicogrammar: Verb-complementational preferences across varieties Mapping Unity and Diversity World-Wide: Corpus-Based Studies of New Englishes, Hundt, Marianne and Ulrike Gut (eds.), pp. 137–166 | Article
It has been noted that the study of the interface between lexis and grammar in general and verb-complementational patterns and preferences in particular offers new insights into distinctive and so far largely neglected structures of varieties of English. Based on data from the International Corpus… read more
2012 Particle verbs across first and second language varieties of English Mapping Unity and Diversity World-Wide: Corpus-Based Studies of New Englishes, Hundt, Marianne and Ulrike Gut (eds.), pp. 167–196 | Article
Particle verbs are a very common and highly productive feature at the lexis-grammar interface and are thus particularly prone to undergoing structural nativization resulting in variety-specific usage patterns of frequency and innovation. In addition, particle verbs have been noted to display… read more