There’s different types
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Guyanne Wilson
Abstract
This chapter presents the results of a study looking at agreement in existential constructions in Nigerian English (NigE). It compares the spoken and written components of ICE Nigeria and looks at the overall frequency of nonagreement in existential constructions as well as differences between the two registers before looking more closely at agreement across four ICE text categories: private dialogues, public dialogues, unscripted monologues, and scripted monologues. It also compares NigE to other varieties of English. Non-agreement in existential constructions occurs less frequently in NigE than in inner circle varieties, but within the range generally reported for outer and expanding circle varieties. In NigE, as in all other varieties examined to date, non-agreement occurs most frequently in the ‘private dialogues’ text category, but NigE exhibits different constraints on non-agreement from other varieties.
Abstract
This chapter presents the results of a study looking at agreement in existential constructions in Nigerian English (NigE). It compares the spoken and written components of ICE Nigeria and looks at the overall frequency of nonagreement in existential constructions as well as differences between the two registers before looking more closely at agreement across four ICE text categories: private dialogues, public dialogues, unscripted monologues, and scripted monologues. It also compares NigE to other varieties of English. Non-agreement in existential constructions occurs less frequently in NigE than in inner circle varieties, but within the range generally reported for outer and expanding circle varieties. In NigE, as in all other varieties examined to date, non-agreement occurs most frequently in the ‘private dialogues’ text category, but NigE exhibits different constraints on non-agreement from other varieties.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- Introduction 1
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I Meaning in time and space
- Digital discourse and its discontents 9
- Text, intertext and meaning 37
- Hic sunt dracones 65
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II Variation in time
- Presenting knowledge of the world 89
- Interpreting the world of late modern English medical writing 113
- A corpus-based analysis of grammarians’ references in 19th-century British grammars 133
- Construing justice 173
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III Variation in space
- Variation in the complementiser choice between if and whether 203
- Using intensifier-adjective collocations to investigate mechanisms of change 231
- There’s different types 257
- Academic prose across countries 283
- A corpus-based study of metadiscoursal boosters in applied linguistics dissertations written in Thailand and in the United States 321
- Patterns and meanings of hedging verbs in English-medium research articles by Chinese and Western scholars 351
- The EMI campus as site and source for a multimodal corpus 377
- Index 403
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- Introduction 1
-
I Meaning in time and space
- Digital discourse and its discontents 9
- Text, intertext and meaning 37
- Hic sunt dracones 65
-
II Variation in time
- Presenting knowledge of the world 89
- Interpreting the world of late modern English medical writing 113
- A corpus-based analysis of grammarians’ references in 19th-century British grammars 133
- Construing justice 173
-
III Variation in space
- Variation in the complementiser choice between if and whether 203
- Using intensifier-adjective collocations to investigate mechanisms of change 231
- There’s different types 257
- Academic prose across countries 283
- A corpus-based study of metadiscoursal boosters in applied linguistics dissertations written in Thailand and in the United States 321
- Patterns and meanings of hedging verbs in English-medium research articles by Chinese and Western scholars 351
- The EMI campus as site and source for a multimodal corpus 377
- Index 403
