Aspects of the verbal system of Malaysian english and other englishes

This article reports findings from a comprehensive corpus-based study of several verbal categories in Malaysian English (‘ME’): modals/quasi-modals, progressives and present perfects. Comparisons are drawn with a further five varieties of World English: two Inner Circle (‘IC’) and three Outer Circle...

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Main Authors:	Peter, Collins, Yao, Xinyue
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Language:	English
Published:	Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2013
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6143/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6143/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6143/1/1039-5056-1-PB%5B1%5D.pdf

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spelling	ukm-61432016-12-14T06:40:28Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6143/ Aspects of the verbal system of Malaysian english and other englishes Peter, Collins Yao, Xinyue This article reports findings from a comprehensive corpus-based study of several verbal categories in Malaysian English (‘ME’): modals/quasi-modals, progressives and present perfects. Comparisons are drawn with a further five varieties of World English: two Inner Circle (‘IC’) and three Outer Circle (‘OC’). For the verbal categories selected there is independent evidence of recent diachronic variation in British English (‘BrE’) and American English (‘AmE’). Apparent time insights into the degrees of advancement of ME and the OC Englishes with respect to these changes are derived via comparisons of speech versus writing frequencies, and comparisons with frequencies for the IC varieties. The findings suggest that ME is exonormatively oriented toward the current global English superpower, AmE, and that there is a continuing reluctance to accept colloquial grammatical features in more formal registers of ME. Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2013 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6143/1/1039-5056-1-PB%5B1%5D.pdf Peter, Collins and Yao, Xinyue (2013) Aspects of the verbal system of Malaysian english and other englishes. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 19 (1). pp. 93-104. ISSN 0128-5157 http://ukm.my/ppbl/3L/3LHome.html
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description	This article reports findings from a comprehensive corpus-based study of several verbal categories in Malaysian English (‘ME’): modals/quasi-modals, progressives and present perfects. Comparisons are drawn with a further five varieties of World English: two Inner Circle (‘IC’) and three Outer Circle (‘OC’). For the verbal categories selected there is independent evidence of recent diachronic variation in British English (‘BrE’) and American English (‘AmE’). Apparent time insights into the degrees of advancement of ME and the OC Englishes with respect to these changes are derived via comparisons of speech versus writing frequencies, and comparisons with frequencies for the IC varieties. The findings suggest that ME is exonormatively oriented toward the current global English superpower, AmE, and that there is a continuing reluctance to accept colloquial grammatical features in more formal registers of ME.
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title	Aspects of the verbal system of Malaysian english and other englishes
title_short	Aspects of the verbal system of Malaysian english and other englishes
title_full	Aspects of the verbal system of Malaysian english and other englishes
title_fullStr	Aspects of the verbal system of Malaysian english and other englishes
title_full_unstemmed	Aspects of the verbal system of Malaysian english and other englishes
title_sort	aspects of the verbal system of malaysian english and other englishes
publisher	Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM
publishDate	2013
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