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NDTs in Non-native English: A Syntactic Analysis

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  • Bisma Butt

    (PhD Scholar,Department of English,University of Gujrat, Gujrat, Punjab, Pakistan.)

  • Behzad Anwar

    (Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Gujrat, Gujrat, Punjab, Pakistan.)

Abstract

Verb complementation in New Englishes perspective has attracted extensive scholarly attention (Nihalani et al., 2004). A valuable deviation due to emergence of locally characteristic linguistic patterns in Pakistani English can be captured in the domain of verb complementation called New Ditransitives(NDTs) (Bernaisch & Koch, 2015), on a broad syntactic level, NDTs are verbs used in double-object construction in new Englishes but not in standard British English. This paper is an attempt to find out NDTs in Pakistani English as compared to British English by using comparable corpora and as well as Predication phrase analysis of Larson (1988) compatible with Chomskys ideas about argumentsÆ’Æ’Æ’ interpretations in the area of vp is used for syntactic analysis. The theoretical significance shows that the main difference in producing NDTs is due to different parameters and system of lexicon.

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  • Bisma Butt & Behzad Anwar, 2019. "NDTs in Non-native English: A Syntactic Analysis," Global Regional Review, Humanity Only, vol. 4(4), pages 299-309, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:aaw:grrjrn:v:4:y:2019:i:4:p:299-309
    DOI: 10.31703/grr.2019(IV-IV).33
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    Keywords

    Non- native English; Comparative study; Syntactic Analysis; NDTs;
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    • R00 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General - - - General
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