TY  - BOOK
AU  - Imran Ho-Abdullah
PY  - 2011
CY  - Lausanne, Switzerland
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783035101676
TI  - Variety and Variability
T2  - A Corpus-based Cognitive Lexical-semantics Analysis of Prepositional Usage in British, New Zealand and Malaysian English
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-0351-0167-6
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1052312
N2  - Research into varieties of Englishes around the world has received much attention from scholars. This book offers a new perspective from a cognitive inter and intra lexemic analysis of prepositional variations in Malaysian English and contrasts them with similar prepositions in New Zealand and British English. Based on corpora data from the three varieties, the author provides usage types analysis of the prepositions at, in and on. The analysis exploits cognitive approaches to prepositional polysemy and gives a motivated account of prepositional variations across varieties. The book offers a wealth of corpus based linguistic data and explanation to our understanding of variations in prepositional usage in different varieties of English. The distributional frequencies of various usage types are provided to illustrate the variation.
KW  - Linguistic Data Processing, Semantics, Related Language, Related Dialect, Sociolinguistics
LA  - English
ER  -