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• W2068995360 abstract "Reviewed by: New Zealand English grammar, fact or fiction? A corpus-based study in morphosyntactic information by Marianne Hundt James A. Walker New Zealand English grammar, fact or fiction? A corpus-based study in morphosyntactic information. By Marianne Hundt. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1998. Pp. xiv, 212. Hundt’s book is an analysis of grammatical features in two corpora of written New Zealand English (NZE). As an attempt to redress the neglect of grammatical variation in standard varieties, this book follows a welcome direction of research in English dialectology. However, its potential contribution is impeded by problems with the choice of data and methods of analysis. In her introduction (1–8), H provides an overview of research on NZE and discusses its status as a national variety of English. Ch. 2 (9–27) explores the notion of standards in English and NZE’s relation to the two international ‘centers of gravity’—American English (AmE) and British English (BrE)—and sets out the methodological assumptions of corpus linguistics. In Chs. 3 (29–50) and 4 (51–103), H compares her results with those of corpus-based studies of (written) AmE and BrE for a number of morphosyntactic features (too numerous to detail here). H argues that AmE is leading in several apparent grammatical changes such as the regularization of the past participle of irregular verbs (except prove), the expansion of the ‘s-genitive, the extension of the present perfect to preterite contexts, and the distribution of have. In most cases, H shows NZE either to be intermediate between AmE and the more conservative BrE (though closer to the latter) or not to be participating in these changes. H examines variation in lexical (sub) categorization in Ch. 5 (105–22), where, again, NZE appears to be intermediate between AmE and BrE in ongoing changes and shares some distinctive lexical features with Australian English. Ch. 6 (123–31) compares the 100 most frequent words of the corpora, which are listed in Appendix 2. (Three other appendixes include, respectively, prescriptivist letters to newspaper editors, the questionnaire used in a supplementary elicitation test, and additional tables and statistics.) The conclusion (133–43) considers the relation between regional variation and diachronic change and how to distinguish between the two, as well as methodological issues in corpus linguistics. In fact, a number of methodological considerations call into question H’s conclusions and her inferences of change. First, written corpora immediately present problems for a study of national varieties since written English is internationally much more homogeneous than its spoken equivalents (141). More importantly, as H herself points out (129), word-frequency counts are an inadequate way of studying grammatical variation since they do not delimit the context in which speakers have a choice between forms. Thus, frequencies may simply represent the occurrence of contexts which favor one form. While H struggles at times to define variable contexts for some features (such as the present perfect), she ignores the possible insights that a variationist approach would offer to this issue. Finally, inferring diachronic change from regional differences is dubious. In order to demonstrate change, more direct diachronic data is needed—such corpora are already available, if not readily downloadable. Despite these problems, H’s book represents a much-needed move in English dialect studies to consider the less salient but no less interesting issue of grammatical variation. James A. Walker York University Copyright © 2002 Linguistic Society of America" @default.
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