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Balasubramanian, Chandrika – World Englishes, 2009
This is a corpus-based investigation of "also" and "too" in 11 registers of Indian English. The corpus used for this study is a combination of a Corpus of Contemporary Indian English (CCIE), and certain sections of ICE-India. The study: (1) determines the proportions of "also" and "too" with respect to each…
Descriptors: Semantics, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Woodward, James – Sign Language Studies, 1982
Handshapes with single finger extension are examined in data from 10 sign languages: American, Australian, British, Finnish, French, Japanese, Providence Island, Rennell Island, Indian, and Swedish. It is concluded that a theory of marking can be developed along the same lines as for spoken language, with only the physiology differing. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, English