Mehl, S.W. orcid.org/0000-0003-3036-8132 (2018) Corpus onomasiology in world Englishes and the concrete verbs make and give. World Englishes, 37 (2). pp. 185-206. ISSN 0883-2919
Abstract
Traditional theoretical frameworks for world Englishes (WEs) such as Moag's (1982) and Kachru's (1985) have not explicitly noted a role for lexical semantics. Schneider's (2007) dynamic model, however, explicitly defines specific phases of WE development in terms of lexical semantics, and Brutt‐Griffler's (2002) model emphasizes semantic change. This paper fills a gap in the literature by presenting corpus studies into the concrete senses of the highly frequent, highly polysemous transitive verbs make and give, in the International Corpus of English (ICE) components representing Singapore, Hong Kong, and Great Britain. Via onomasiological corpus methods, I show that register differentiation for the alternation between Germanic, monosyllabic forms make and give and their Latinate, polysyllabic alternates is not as extensive in ICE‐HK as in ICE‐SIN and ICE‐GB. I interpret these findings in relation to the models of Brutt‐Griffler (2002), Schneider (2007), and Kachru (1985).
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in World Englishes. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > School of English (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 14 May 2018 14:47 |
Last Modified: | 07 Jul 2020 08:14 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12297 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/weng.12297 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:117478 |