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Article published In: Linguistic Innovations: Rethinking linguistic creativity in non-native Englishes
Edited by Sandra C. Deshors, Sandra Götz and Samantha Laporte
[International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 2:2] 2016
► pp. 151–176

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The ‘intrusive as’-construction in South Asian varieties of English and Learner Englishes

 | Dresden University of Technology
Published online: 20 October 2016
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This paper focuses on the ‘intrusive as’-construction in complex-transitive verb complementation which was so far only attested for Indian English. Our data show that ‘intrusive as’ is a common feature in South Asian Englishes generally, albeit to different degrees. Comparing the South Asian data with data from Learner Englishes allows to test several hypotheses concerning the origin of ‘intrusive as’; the most robust correlation within the data points to redundancy as a motivating factor for both ESL and EFL contexts.
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