Schedule 74. StuTS

There has been a lot of research on different aspects of varieties of English (also known as World Englishes) in terms of phonology, morphology, discourse analysis, and typology. Fewer work has been done on the effect of the contact between English and other important languages in countries where English is considered a second language (L2 language) and its imprint on the syntactic structure of these varieties of English. In my BA thesis, I have begun to examine the correlation between the influence of first languages being contact languages (L1 languages) and the structural complexities of certain varieties of English leaving behind the actual point of interest in deletion and addition of syntactic features in correlation with language contact. For the purpose of this presentation, I would like to return to this core idea: the connection between Mesthrie and Bhatt’s (2008) ‘deleter-preserver’ continuum, which puts varieties of Asian Englishes on the end of deleters and varieties of African Englishes on the end of preservers. I will focus on the influence of Swahili as L1 language on Kenyan English (KenE) and Cantonese as L1 language on Hongkong English (HKE). As for my thesis, the data is mainly taken from Kortmann et al.’s (2020) The Electronic Atlas of Varieties of English (eWAVE), Setter et al. (2010), and Buregeya (2019) who have specialized on the two varieties under research. This approach should allow me to identify certain aspects of deletion and preservation (addition) in KenE and HKE respectively and tie them to the syntactic influence of the two contact languages.

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Day: 2023-10-28
Start time: 10:30
Duration: 00:25
Room: NIG Raum 1
Track: Typology and Variational Linguistics
Language: en

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