New Zealand English Grammar - Fact or Fiction?

• Verfasst von: Hundt, Marianne [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: New Zealand English Grammar - Fact or Fiction?
• Titelzusatz: A corpus-based study in morphosyntactic variation
• Verlagsort: Amsterdam/Philadelphia
• Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Jahr: 1998
• Umfang: 1 online resource (228 pages)
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Varieties of English Around the World ; v.G23
• Fussnoten: Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
• ISBN: 978-90-272-7555-4
• Schlagwörter: (g)Neuseeland / (s)Englisch / (s)Mundart / (s)Grammatik
• Schlagwörter: (s)Englisch / (g)Neuseeland / (s)Grammatik
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Dokumenttyp: Hochschulschrift
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe: Hundt, Marianne, 1966 - : New Zealand English grammar. - Amsterdam [u.a.] : Benjamins, 1998. - XIV, 212 S.
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe
• RVK-Notation: HF 561
• Sach-SW: English language ; New Zealand ; Discourse analysis
• Sach-SW: English language ; New Zealand ; Grammar
• Sach-SW: English language ; Variation ; New Zealand
• Sach-SW: Electronic books
• K10plus-PPN: 169660110X

Abstract

New Zealand English (NZE) is one of the younger post-colonial varieties of English. It is therefore not surprising that previous research focused on lexical and phonological aspects of NZE and practically neglected grammatical peculiarities. New Zealand English Grammar - Fact or Fiction? presents a careful comparative analysis of parallel corpora of New Zealand, British, American and Australian English in order to single out morphological, syntactic and lexico-grammatical features typical of an emerging New Zealand standard. In addition to corpus data on regional variation, the author uses data on short-term diachronic change within British and American English to show how regional variation is closely related to both stylistic variation (a world-wide colloquialisation of the written norms of English) and ongoing linguistic change leading to temporal regional differences. NZE is different from other national varieties of English in terms of preferences for certain variants rather than categorically different grammatical rules. Nevertheless, it is a standard in its own right in so far as it is a typical mix of variants available in World English. The methodological approach combines both qualitative analyses and statistical evidence. The question in how far statistically significant differences in word frequencies can be shown to be linguistically significant is also relevant for other quantitative research into emerging national standards.

Abstract

NEW ZEALAND ENGLISH GRAMMAR FACT OR FICTION? A CORPUS-BASED STUDY IN MORPHOSYNTACTIC VARIATION -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Figures and tables -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Previous research -- 1.1.1. NZE and its relation to other national varieties -- 1.1.2. NZE and language change -- 1.1.3. Stylistic variation within NZE -- 1.2. Aim and scope of the study -- 2. Theoretical and methodological foundations -- 2.1. The notion of 'standard' in English -- 2.2. International English and national standards -- 2.3. Variation studies and corpus linguistics -- 2.3.1. Corpus linguistics and statistics -- 2.3.2. The corpora - sampling principles -- 2.3.3. The corpora - corpus size -- 2.3.4. Corpus linguistics and variation studies: An integrated approach -- 2.3.5. Corpus linguistics and elicitation tests -- 3. Morphology -- 3.1. Irregular verbs -- 3.1.1. 'Burn, learn' and 'dream' in New Zealand, British and American English -- 3.1.2. Regularization of irregular past tense forms: A comparison of New Zealand, Australian and British English -- 3.1.3. Trove' -- 3.1.4. 'Gotten' -- 3.2. Comparison of adjectives -- 3.2.1. Periphrastic comparison of monosyllabic adjectives -- 3.2.2. Double comparatives -- 3.3. The s-genitive -- 3.4. Summary -- 4. Syntax -- 4.1. 'Have' -- 4.1.1. Corpus data - occurrences of 'have' -- 4.1.2. 'Have to' with modal meaning -- 4.13. Full verb 'have' -- 4.2. 'Shall' and 'will' -- 4.3. Marginal modals -- 4.3.1. 'Need' and 'dare -- 4.3.2.'Ought (to)' -- 4.3.3. 'Used to'' -- 4.4. Aspect -- 4.4.1. Preterite and perfect -- 4.4.2. The progressive -- 4.5. A note on the 'get'-passive -- 4.6. Collective nouns -- 4.6.1. Regional variation -- 4.6.2. Verbal,pronominal and mixed concord -- 4.6.3. Diachronie change and stylistic variation -- 4.6.4. Corpus data.