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154 peter collins (ed.). grammatical change in english world-wide. amsterdam: john benjamins, 2015. 488 pp. isbn 978-90-272-0375-5. reviewed by sarah buschfeld, university of regensburg. world englishes in its various forms, types, and contexts is one of the most complex fields in english linguistics studied most extensively these days. the english language looks back at a multifaceted and interesting history in terms of changes in functions and uses but also with respect to evolving and changing linguistic characteristics on the different levels of description. however, as peter collins, the editor, states in the introduction, “[t]he investigation of postcolonial varieties of english from a diachronic rather than synchronic linguistic perspec- tive has […] been largely neglected” (p. 1). to address this “diachronic gap” (p. 10), the 18 articles of the volume are devoted to changes in the grammatical domain across different inner and outer circle englishes, analyzing both spo- ken and written …

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periphrasis, and prescriptivism in victoria english”; pp. 43–63) investigates changes in the use of the stative possession forms have, have got, and got in newspaper data (the british colonist) from victoria (canada) between 1858 and 1935, as this is review in icame journal, volume 40, 2016, doi: 10.1515/icame-2016-0011 unauthenticated download date | 5/16/16 3:59 am reviews 155 the period in which the use of innovative have got expanded very quickly in bre. however, the british colonist data suggest that at least written canadian english (cane) did not follow the quick expansion of have got distinctive of bre during that time. somewhat linked to the earlier topic but shifting the focus back to the antipodean southern hemisphere, marianne hundt (“do-support in early new zealand and australian english”; pp. 65–86) confirms that earlier findings on variable do-support from 19th century bre have been effective in ause and new zealand english (nze) as …

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to transfer from irish. in the next chapter, christian mair (“cross-variety diachronic drifts and ephemeral regional contrasts: an analysis of modality in the extended brown family of corpora and what it can tell us about the new englishes”; pp. 119– 146) investigates the use of modals and semi-modals in a first-ever analysis of all six completed corpora of the brown family. one of the most important find- ings of his analysis is that bre and ame have generally been following the same diachronic drift in their development, only at a different pace, and that regional contrasts between bre and ame are “weak and transient” (p. 141). with respect to contemporary regional contrasts, and taking on board ause and nze as rep- resentatives of the new englishes, he finds that both cluster with ame and that all three show differences in their uses of certain modals when compared to bre. moving …

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he use of the zero forms for ause and yet a steeper decline for bre. celeste rodríguez louro (“the evolution of epistemic marking in west australian english”; pp. 205–219) looks into the diachronic development of ause think, more precisely its grammaticalization into an epistemic/evidential parenthetical. the results of her multivariate analysis reveal age differences between speakers (the corpus used comprises oral histories by speakers born between 1874 and 1983), which suggests that the grammaticalization of think mainly occurred in the late 20th century. looking into the diachronic development of modals, marije van hattum investigates the use of “may and might in nineteenth century irish english and english english” (pp. 221–246). she differentiates between objective and sub- jective possibility contexts and finds that in the former might was restricted to past or remote contexts whereas the distribution of may was exactly the oppo- site. for the latter context, the data suggest …

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l as caribbean and black south african english. peter collins introduces this part with a study on “recent diachronic change in the progressive in philip- pine english” (pp. 271–296) between the 1960s and the 1990s, by which he unauthenticated download date | 5/16/16 3:59 am reviews 157 aims at shedding further light on the ongoing discussion about the degree of endonormativity philippine english has developed over time. the results, how- ever, are not conclusive in that they show both exonormative orientation towards the parent variety ame as well as endonormativity (i.e. departures from ame patterns), thus implying an intermediate status. julia davydova (“linguistic change in a multilingual setting: a case study of quotatives in indian english”; pp. 297–334) investigates recent linguistic changes in strategies employed for introducing direct speech. she finds that, between the 1990s and the 2000s, significant changes in the use of quotatives took place (viz. decreasing frequencies …

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154 peter collins (ed.). grammatical change in english world-wide. amsterdam: john benjamins, 2015. 488 pp. isbn 978-90-272-0375-5. reviewed by sarah buschfeld, university of regensburg. world englishes in its various forms, types, and contexts is one of the most complex fields in english linguistics studied most extensively these days. the english language looks back at a multifaceted and interesting history in terms of changes in functions and uses but also with respect to evolving and changing linguistic characteristics on the different levels of description. however, as peter collins, the editor, states in the introduction, “[t]he investigation of postcolonial varieties of english from a diachronic rather than synchronic linguistic perspec- tive has […] been largely neglected” (p. 1). ...

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