Exploring subtlety: collocational variation of the definite article in Inner and Outer Circle varieties of English

• 主要作者: Abdul Wahid, Mohd Ridwan
• 格式: Conference or Workshop Item
• 語言: English; English
• 出版: 2012
• 主題: P Philology. Linguistics; PE English
• 在線閱讀: http://irep.iium.edu.my/29122/1/ICLLICRidwan_Wahid.pptx; http://irep.iium.edu.my/29122/2/icllicprogramme_3nov_.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/29122/

Article usage variation is often said to manifest itself in terms of token omission and insertion e.g. American take me to the hospital vs. British take me to Ø hospital. Quantitative evidence, however, can only offer little support for the extensiveness of such variation (e.g. Sand, 2004). Given th...