Publication: The use of the be-passive in academic Englishes: local versus global usage in an international language
The use of the be-passive in academic Englishes: local versus global usage in an international language
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Hundt, M., Schneider, G., & Seoane, E. (2016). The use of the be-passive in academic Englishes: local versus global usage in an international language. Corpora, 11(1), 31–63. https://doi.org/10.3366/cor.2016.0084
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In this paper we examine the diffusion of a syntactic change in a specialized text type in different World Englishes, in particular the use of be-passives in academic discourse in nine contact varieties of English and six ENL (i.e. native English) varieties. The Zurich-parsed International Corpus of English (ICE) makes it possible to retrieve automatically, for the first time, the two variants in the envelope of variation: active transitive constructions and be-passives. We apply a regression analysis in order to gauge the effect of p
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- Hundt, Marianne
- Schneider, Gerold
- Seoane, Elena
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Hundt, M., Schneider, G., & Seoane, E. (2016). The use of the be-passive in academic Englishes: local versus global usage in an international language. Corpora, 11(1), 31–63. https://doi.org/10.3366/cor.2016.0084