New Zealand English grammar fact or fiction? : a corpus-based study in morphosyntactic variation
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
New Zealand English grammar fact or fiction? : a corpus-based study in morphosyntactic variation
(Varieties of English around the world, General series ; v. 23)
J. Benjamins, c1998
- : US
- : Eur
- Other Title
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New Zealand English grammar
Available at 29 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Kobe Shoin Women's University Library / Kobe Shoin Women's College Library
: Eur838/85-1/2312173211
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p.145-158) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 1. List of Figures and Tables
- 2. Abbreviations
- 3. Preface
- 4. Introduction
- 5. Theoretical and methodological foundations
- 6. Morphology
- 7. Syntax
- 8. Lexico-grammar
- 9. Statistical significance and linguistic relevance
- 10. Conclusion
- 11. References
- 12. Appendix 1
- 13. Appendix 2
- 14. Appendix 3
- 15. Appendix 4
- 16. Index
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