Open AccessZero Marking in English as Lingua Franca Interactions: Corpus IST-Erasmus
Author(s) -
Serap Önen
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
study in english language teaching
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2372-9740
pISSN - 2329-311X
DOI - 10.22158/selt.v4n2p208
Subject(s) - erasmus+ , zero (linguistics) , lingua franca , linguistics , english as a lingua franca , focus (optics) , humanities , art , philosophy , physics , art history , the renaissance , optics
This study introduces the marking system for 3 rd person present tense in English as Lingua Franca interactions. It is a corpus study which is compiled as part of a PhD study to investigate the lexico-grammatical characteristics of ELF. The corpus, Corpus IST-Erasmus, consists of 10 hours 47 minutes of recorded ELF interactions. It is compiled by means of 54 speech events with the participation of 79 Erasmus students in Istanbul, representing 24 diverse L1s. The focus of this paper is to present whether there are variations from standardized ENL forms with respect to the 3 rd person present tense marking, as proposed in previous ELF research. The results indicate that the use of 3 rd person zero in place of 3 rd person -s is becoming an emerging pattern in ELF interactions.