Null Subjects in Englishes
Author | : Verena Schröter |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2019-09-02 |
ISBN-10 | : 9783110645354 |
ISBN-13 | : 3110645351 |
Rating | : 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Download or read book Null Subjects in Englishes written by Verena Schröter and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-09-02 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the first systematic quantitative study of null subjects not only in British English, but also in the contact varieties Indian, Hong Kong and Singapore English. Analysing informal spoken language, it addresses issues relevant for language contact and World Englishes, corpus linguistics and variationist sociolinguistics, linguistic typology and syntax.