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Co-selection phenomena across New Englishes : Parallels (and differences) to foreign learner varieties
Ist Teil von
English world-wide, 2009-01, Vol.30 (1), p.1-26
Ort / Verlag
Amsterdam: Benjamins
Erscheinungsjahr
2009
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Similarities of the phraseology of institutionalized second language varieties and foreign learner varieties have gone almost completely unnoticed so far. In this paper, different types of co-selection phenomena are examined across ESL and EFL varieties on the basis of the ICE-corpora of Kenyan, Indian, Singaporean, and Jamaican English and of ICLE, the
International Corpus of Learner English
. Among the features investigated are the use of competing collocations such as
play a role
and
play a part
, the noun complementation of collocations (
HAVE
+
INTENTION
+
of -ing
vs.
to
+ infinitive), and non-L1 (or “new”) prepositional verbs such as
comprise of
,
demand for
or
emphasize on
. The exploration shows that many co-selection phenomena do indeed recur not only across individual institutionalized L2 varieties but also across the two variety types. Certain kinds of language-internal irregularities in the phraseology of Standard English are shown to be a major reason for the observed parallels