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Comparative Studies in Australian and New Zealand English: Grammar and beyond (Varieties of English Around the World General Series)
By Pam Peters, Peter Collins, Adam Smith
* Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
* Number Of Pages: 406
* Publication Date: 2009-07-29
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 9027248990
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9789027248992
This anthology brings together fresh corpus-based research by international scholars. It contrasts southern and northern hemisphere usage on variable elements of morphology and syntax. The nineteen invited papers include topics such as irregular verb parts, pronouns, modal and quasimodal verbs, the perfect tense, the progressive aspect, and mandative subjunctives. Lexicogrammatical elements are discussed: light verbs (e.g. have a look), informal quantifiers (e.g. heaps of), no-collocations, concord with government and other group nouns, alternative verb complementation (as with help, prevent), zero complementizers and connective adverbs (e.g. however). Selected information-structuring devices are analyzed, e.g. there is/are, like as a discourse marker, final but as a turn-taking device, and swearwords. Australian and New Zealand use of hypocoristics and changes in gendered expressions are also analyzed. The two varieties pattern together in some cases, in others they diverge: Australian English is usually more committed to colloquial variants in speech and writing. The book demonstrates linguistic endonormativity in these two southern hemisphere Englishes.
Table of contents
List of abbreviations
vii
List of contributors
ix–x
Prologue
Peter Collins
1–10
Section I. Morphology
Irregular verbs: Regularization and ongoing variability
Pam Peters
13–30
Pronoun forms
Heidi Quinn
31–48
Hypocoristics in New Zealand and Australian English
Dianne Bardsley and Jane Simpson
49–70
Section II. Verbs and verb phrases
Modals and quasi-modals
Peter Collins
73–88
The perfect and the preterite in Australian and New Zealand English
Johan Elsness
89–114
The progressive
Peter Collins
115–124
The mandative subjunctive in spoken English
Pam Peters
125–138
Light verbs in Australian, New Zealand and British English
Adam Smith
139–154
Section III. Nouns and noun phrases
Non-numerical quantifiers
Adam Smith
159–180
From chairman to chairwoman to chairperson: Exploring the move from sexist usages to gender neutrality
Janet Holmes, Robert J. Sigley and Agnes Terraschke
181–202
Section IV. Clauses and sentences
203–290
Concord with collective nouns in Australian and New Zealand English
Marianne Hundt
205–222
No in the lexicogrammar of English
Pam Peters and Yasmin Funk
223–240
Zero complementizer, syntactic context, and regional variety
Kate Kearns
241–260
Infinitival and gerundial complements
Christian Mair
261–274
Commas and connective adverbs
Peter G. Peterson
275–290
Section V. Discourse
291–398
Information-packaging constructions
Peter Collins
293–314
Like and other discourse markers
Jim Miller
315–336
Final but in Australian English conversation
Jean Mulder, Sandra A. Thompson and Cara Penry Williams
337–358
Swearing
Keith Allan and Kate Burridge
359–384
Epilogue
Pam Peters
385–398
Index
401–406

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