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The present perfect in non-native Englishes : a corpus-based study of variation /
This is an innovative study of variation of the English present perfect that offers analyses of interestingly diverse data sets of non-native English and addresses some of the hotly debated issues in variationist sociolinguistics, second language acquisition and research on linguistic complexity.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
De Gruyter Mouton,
2011.
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| Colección: | Topics in English linguistics ;
77. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Non-native varieties of English
- 3. Some theoretical preliminaries
- 4. Towards a theoretical explanation for variation between the present perfect and preterite
- 5. The notion of complexity and the English present perfect
- 6. Metrics of complexity
- 7. Empirical design of the study and methodology
- 8. The reference variety of Standard English English (LLC)
- 9. Acrolectal variety of Indian English (HCNVE)
- 10. Upper-mesolectal variety of Indian English (ICE)
- 11. Mesolectal variety of Indian English (HCNVE)
- 12. Basilectal variety of Indian English (HCNVE)
- 13. Upper-mesolectal variety of East African English (ICE)
- 14. Upper-mesolectal variety of Singapore English (ICE)
- 15. Mesolectal variety of English spoken in Russia (HCNVE)
- 16. Mesolectal variety of English spoken in Germany (HCNVE)
- 17. Developing a bird's-eye perspective on the variability of the present perfect across non-native Englishes
- 18. Concluding remarks
- Abbreviations
- References
- Corpora
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2
- Index.