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Structural nativization, typology and complexity: noun phrase structures in British, Kenyan and Singaporean English

URN to cite this document:
urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-345617
DOI to cite this document:
10.5283/epub.34561
Brunner, Thomas
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Abstract

Two much-cited explanations for linguistic innovations in varieties of New Englishes are cross-linguistic influence (see Gut 2011) and simplification (see Schneider 2007: 82). Using these two notions as starting points, the present study seeks to detect effects of structural nativization in noun phrase (NP) modification in two varieties of English whose substrate languages differ strongly from a ...

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