Variation in Verbal Complementation Patterns in Nativised Varieties of English:: the Case of REMEMBER in Indian English

• Autores: Laura García Castro
• Localización: Taking stock to look ahead: celebrating forty years of English studies in Spain / coord. por María Ferrández San Miguel, Claus Peter Neumann, 2018, ISBN 978-84-16723-51-5, págs. 207-214
• Idioma: inglés
• Enlaces
  • Texto Completo Libro  1    2 (pdf) 
• Dialnet Métricas: 2 Citas
• Resumen

  • In this paper, I study the complementation patterns of REMEMBER in two varieties of English:

    British and Indian English aiming at discovering differences and/or similarities between them. I use ICE (the International Corpus of English) as a source and analyse all instances of REMEMBER followed by a complement clause and their distribution across varieties, medium and type of text.

    My results show that despite the similarities in the complementation patterns of the verb REMEMBER across these two varieties of English, since both tend to use finite complement clauses more frequently, the tendency is more pronounced in Indian English.