Into -causatives in World Englishes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11309031 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas Brunner (0000-0002-3131-8148, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-32 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-27 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | English World-Wide A Journal of Varieties of English (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0172-8865 • E-ISSN: 1569-9730 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/eww.21068.bru |
| OpenAlex | W3211901437 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 22 |
The paper analyses the frequency and use of the relatively rare, yet highly productive into- causative construction in twenty varieties of English on the basis of the 1.9-billion word Corpus of Web-based Global English (GloWbE; Davies 2013 ) 1 and Schneider’s (2007) Dynamic Model. It hypothesises differences in frequency, variation in the preference for particularly frequent fillers as well as productivity differences in line with Schneider’s stages of linguistic evolution. However, it shows that only frequency differences reflect the Dynamic Model; with regard to the preference for frequent realisations and productivity, postcolonial varieties turn out to be very similar to British English. These results come as a surprise against the background of similar studies of the way -construction, where all of these effects have been documented convincingly. It is argued that the properties of into -causatives themselves (e.g. their idiomatic and semantic simplicity) might contribute to their more native-like usage patterns in postcolonial varieties of English
Causative · Economics · Epistemology · Geography · Linguistics · Preference · Productivity · Simplicity · Sociology · Statistics · Surprise · Varieties of English · Communication · History · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Postcolonial English
Analyzing Linguistic Data
Constructions
Longman grammar of spoken and written English
Marginal Argument Structure constructions
Lexical gravity across varieties of English
The way -construction in World Englishes
Response to Davies and Fuchs
Describing verb-complementational profiles of New Englishes
Response to Davies and Fuchs
The Dynamics of New Englishes
How to trace structural nativization
| Citations per year | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |