Michael Percillier

List of John Benjamins publications in which Michael Percillier is involved.

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World Englishes and Second Language Acquisition: Insights from Southeast Asian Englishes

Michael Percillier

Bridging the gap between the fields of World Englishes and Second Language Acquisition, this volume offers an in-depth comparative analysis of two postcolonial varieties of English (Singapore and Malaysian English) and neighbouring Indonesian learner English in order to examine the Outer/Expanding… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G58] 2016. xviii, 205 pp.

Articles

Percillier, Michael 2022 Chapter 2. Adapting the Dynamic Model to historical linguistics: Case studies on the Middle English and Anglo-Norman contact situation English Historical Linguistics: Historical English in contact, Los, Bettelou, Chris Cummins, Lisa Gotthard, Alpo Honkapohja and Benjamin Molineaux (eds.), pp. 5–34 | Chapter

This chapter describes a new application of the Dynamic Model of contact by Edgar W. Schneider to the medieval contact situation between Anglo-Norman and Middle English, which lasted from 1066 until ca. 1500. Specifically, the emergence of an insular variety of Old French called Anglo-French, as… read more

Percillier, Michael 2020 Allostructions, homostructions or a constructional family? Changes in the network of secondary predicate constructions in Middle English Nodes and Networks in Diachronic Construction Grammar, Sommerer, Lotte and Elena Smirnova (eds.), pp. 213–242 | Chapter

The network of prepositional secondary predicate constructions has undergone massive changes throughout the history of English. While in Old English forms marked with to (e.g. crown someone as king) used to dominate, forms marked with as dominate in Present-Day English (e.g. crown someone as… read more