Hajar Abdul Rahim
List of John Benjamins publications in which Hajar Abdul Rahim is involved.
Articles
2025 Give, take , and make light verb constructions in mesolectal Malaysian English: A structural-aspectual analysis English World-Wide 46:2, pp. 213–240 | Article
This study analyses the structural and aspectual variants of give, take, and make light verb constructions (LVCs) (e.g. make a call) in mesolectal Malaysian English (MalE). A synchronic corpus of online forum data representing contemporary English use in Malaysia was developed for the analysis,… read more
2021 Nativised structural patterns of make light verb construction in Malaysian English Concentric 47:1, pp. 93–112 | Article
This study investigated nativised structural patterns of light verb constructions (LVCs) in Malaysian English using a corpus-based, descriptive approach to analyse grammatical innovations. To facilitate the analysis, a 100-million-word general corpus comprising threads from Lowyat.Net, a popular… read more