Original paper

Lexical gravity across varieties of English

Volume: 15, Issue: 4, Pages: 520 - 548
Published: Oct 29, 2010
Abstract
In our earlier work on three Asian Englishes and British English, we showed how lexico-syntactic co-occurrence preferences for three argument structure constructions revealed differences between varieties that correlated well with Schneider’s (2003, 2007) model of evolutionary stages. Here, we turn to lexical co-occurrence preferences and investigate if and to what degree n -grams distinguish between different modes and varieties in the same...
Paper Details
Title
Lexical gravity across varieties of English
Published Date
Oct 29, 2010
Volume
15
Issue
4
Pages
520 - 548
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