Varieties of English are spoken all over the world from Africa to Asia, from Europe to America. In addition to its use as a foreign language, English in many of these countries is a first or second language variety that initially arose in a colonial setting. Currently, the most influential sociolinguistic model for the evolution of these ‘Post-Colonial Englishes’ is the Dynamic Model. In this Element, I outline how Construction Grammar, the most prominent cognitive syntactic theory, can provide a cognitive foundation for the assumptions made by the Dynamic Model. As I shall argue, Construction Grammar naturally complements the Dynamic Model and, in addition to that, a ‘Constructionist Grammar Approach to the Dynamic Model’ approach generates new research questions concerning the productivity of syntactic patterns across Dynamic Model phases.
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语言 英语 ● 格式 PDF ● ISBN 9781108905718 ● 出版者 Cambridge University Press ● 发布时间 2021 ● 下载 3 时 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 8232988 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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