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Download full textSridhar, S. N. – 1993
Some syntactic patterns of the variety of English used by students in the final year of formal learning of English are analyzed. In addition, the nature of the lectal continuum of South Asian English (SAE) is discussed, including alternative conceptions of Standard SAE and evaluation of other lects. The discussion is based on an analysis of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Grammar, Grammatical Acceptability
Peer reviewedBamiro, Edmund O. – World Englishes, 1995
Describes syntactic variation in West African English with examples from West African English literature and identifies and describes subjectless sentences, deletion of the -ly morpheme in manner adjuncts, omission of function words, reduplication, tag questions, substitution of prepositions in idiomatic usage, and focus constructions. (53…
Descriptors: African Literature, Descriptive Linguistics, Diction, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedHolzknecht, Suzanne – World Englishes, 1989
Discusses the birthday notices that appear in the advertising section of the Papua New Guinea "Post Courier." The texts of these notices are analyzed from a sociolinguistic perspective, and their context is considered as a register of the variety of English that has become known as Papua New Guinea English. (Author/OD)
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), English, Foreign Countries, Grammar
Sajavaara, Kari, Ed. – 1983
A collection of 17 papers, most presented at the Fifth International Conference on Contrastive Projects in June 1982 in Finland, includes: "Present Trends in Contrastive Linguistics,""Contrastive Linguistics in Bulgaria,""Communicative Competence in Foreign Language Teaching: A Project Report,""From Traditional…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Children, Communicative Competence (Languages), Contrastive Linguistics
