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Adverbial relative clauses in world Englishes
Author(s) -
SUÁREZGÓMEZ CRISTINA
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
world englishes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.6
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1467-971X
pISSN - 0883-2919
DOI - 10.1111/weng.12165
Subject(s) - adverbial , relative clause , linguistics , meaning (existential) , world englishes , dependent clause , antecedent (behavioral psychology) , computer science , psychology , philosophy , developmental psychology , sentence , psychotherapist
This paper investigates adverbial relative clauses in world Englishes, in particular relative clauses expressing place ( the place where ), time ( the time when ), manner ( the way in which ) and reason ( the reason why ). Using data from the ICE corpora, it compares the varieties spoken in India, Hong‐Kong and Singapore. In particular we consider: (i) the meaning expressed by the relative clause; (ii) the nominal antecedent, both its meaning and form; and (iii) the relative word used to introduce the relative clause (adverbial relative word, wh ‐ pronoun, that and zero). An examination of these issues reveals distinguishing features in the distribution of relative words that are related to the different constructions, to the specific postcolonial varieties that have been developed in the different countries and, finally, to the interaction between the superstrate and the different substrate languages.