Carmelo Alessandro Basile
List of John Benjamins publications in which Carmelo Alessandro Basile is involved.
2026 Grammaticalization vs. Diachronic Construction Grammar: A reappraisal Studies in Language 50:2, pp. 471–508 | Article
In some work based on the framework of Diachronic Construction Grammar, a branch of Construction Grammar (e.g. Croft 2001; Goldberg 2006), it has been argued that phenomena traditionally classified as instances of grammaticalization should not be considered as belonging to a distinct field of… read more
2025 The YouTube corpus of Singapore English podcasts English World-Wide 46:3, pp. 274–298 | Article
Recent advances in streaming protocols and automatic speech recognition (ASR) have enabled large-scale spoken language corpora, yet research on Singapore English remains constrained by small or text-based datasets. The YouTube Corpus of Singapore English Podcasts (YCSEP) addresses this gap with… read more
2023 Necessity modal development in Singapore English: An investigation of substratist and contact-grammaticalisation approaches English World-Wide 44:2, pp. 276–302 | Article
Spoken in a multilingual environment characterised by continuous contacts with other languages, Singapore English (SgE) is a singular object of study. Its modal system has also been developing in independent ways compared to inner-circle varieties, e.g. British English, its historical ancestor.… read more
Exonormative grammaticalization and endonormative variation: Testing the dynamic model using modal n -grams English World-Wide: Online-First Articles | Article
This paper empirically assesses Schneider’s (2007) Dynamic Model. While the model foregrounds increasing endonormative variation in later stages, lexifier-aligned patterns of grammaticalization would instead prompt increasing convergence. Drawing on data from the Corpus of Global Web-Based… read more