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The Pluperfect in Native and Non-Native English: A Comparative Corpus Study.
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Sharma, Devyani – Language Variation and Change, 2001
Examines a case of dialectal variation in a subpart of the tense-modality aspect system of Indian English. Focuses on functions associated with an existing form: the use of the pluperfect "had" + V-"ed" construction. Contrasts this usage with that of British and American English. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Language Usage
Third-Person Present Singular Verb Inflection in Early British and American English.
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Kyto, Merja – Language Variation and Change, 1993
In a sociohistorical variation analysis of verb inflection in Early Modern British and American English, corpus-based comparisons focus on several extralinguistic and linguistic factors that have influenced the choice of forms over successive periods of time. Contrary to customary theories of "colonial lag," the rate of change was faster…
Descriptors: Colonial History (United States), Colonialism, Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics