Complexity, efficiency, and language contact: pronoun omission in world englishes
Auteur :
Tamaredo, Iván
Éditeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
ISBN :
9783034339025
Date de publication :
2 avr. 2020
Dimensions :
22,5 x 15,0 cm
Poids :
487 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Suisse
Two complementary case studies are presented. First, a cross-varietal study indicates that high-contact varieties of English exhibit a higher attestation rate of pronoun omission than low-contact varieties. Second, a corpus-based study demonstrates that pronouns are commonly omitted in contexts in which their antecedents can be easily identified.