Prepositions in Kenyan English: a corpus-based study in lexico-grammatical variation
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Serah Mwangi
Prepositions in Kenyan English
A Corpus-Based Study in
Lexico-Grammatical Variation
Shaker Verlag
Aachen 2003
Contents
Abbreviations vii
List of tables ix
Acknowledgements xi
1 INTRODUCTION 1
1 1 MOTIVATIONS FOR THE STUDY 2
1 2 THE KENYAN SOCIOUNGUISTIC SITUATION 4
1 3 WHAT is KENYAN ENGLISH? 10
1 4 SCOPE OF THE STUDY 17
2 METHODOLOGY 19
2 1 EXISTING DESCRIPTIONS 19
2 2 LANGUAGE IN USE 21
221 The corpora 22
222 The extended corpus 24
223 Tagging procedures 26
224 Corpus size and grammatical studies 30
2 3 INTROSPECTION 31
2 4 METHODS OF DATA ANALYSIS 33
3 LITERATURE REVIEW 35
3 1 CORPUS-BASED DESCRIPTIONS OF PREPOSITIONAL USAGE 36
3 2 STUDIES OF VARIATION IN PREPOSITIONAL USAGE 39
3 3 PREVIOUS RESEARCH ON KENYAN ENGLISH 46
4 PREPOSITIONS IN STANDARD ENGLISH 57
4 1 DEFINITIONS AND THEORETICAL CONTEXT 57
4 2 TYPES OF PREPOSITIONS 62
4 3 SEMANTIC FUNCTIONS OF PREPOSITIONS 67
431 Spatial prepositions 67
432 Temporal prepositions 80
433 Other prepositional meanings 83
4 4 SYNTACTIC FUNCTIONS OF PREPOSITIONS 86
5 PREPOSITIONS IN THE ICE-K: AN OVERVIEW 91
5 1 FREQUENCY DIFFERENCES IN PREPOSITIONAL USAGE 91
511 The most frequent prepositions compared 95
512 Differences between spoken and written text types 98
5 2 SEMANTIC FUNCTIONS OF PREPOSITIONS 103
521 Prepositions of position and destination: in, into; on, onto 103
522 Expressing dimensional properties: in, on, and at 107
523 Prepositions of source or negative position:/rom, out of and off I l l
524 Prepositions of space: between, beside and near 114
525 Prepositions of passage 117
526 Temporal prepositions: by 118
5 3 PREPOSITIONS OF FOREIGN ORIGIN 121
5 4 PREPOSITIONAL VERBS 125
541 Omissions 126
542 Additions 128
543 Substitutions 131
6 DIFFERENCES IN SIMPLE PREPOSITIONS 137
6 1 THEUSAGEOFOFF 138
611 Collocational frameworks of off 144
6 2 THE USAGE OF OVER 147
621 Collocational frameworks of over 154
6 3 THE USAGE OF DOWN 160
631 Collocational frameworks of down 163
6 4 THE USAGE OF AMONG 168
641 Collocational frameworks of among 169
6 5 THE USAGE OF AROUND VS ROUND 174
651 Collococational frameworks of (a)round 179
6 6 THE USAGE OF ACROSS 180
6 7 THE USAGE OF BENEATH AND UNDERNEATH 184
6 8 THE USAGE OF NOTWITHSTANDING 189
6 9 THE USAGE OF PAST 190
7 DIFFERENCES IN COMPLEX PREPOSITIONS 195
7 1 PREPOSITIONS OF CAUSE OR PURPOSE 197
7 2 PREPOSITIONS OF RESPECT 201
7 3 PREPOSITIONS OF REACTION AND INTERPRETATION 203
7 4 PREPOSITIONS OF CONSIDERATION AND CIRCUMSTANCES 208
7 5 PREPOSITIONS OF CONTRAST AND SUBSTITUTION 214
7 6 OTHER COMPLEX PREPOSITIONS 217
7 7 TWO-WORD VERSUS THREE-WORD COMPLEX PREPOSITIONS 221
8 CONCLUSION 227
8 1 SUMMARY OF FINDINGS 227
82A CATEGORISATION OF PREPOSITIONAL USAGE 2 3 5
8 3 THEORETICAL IMPLICATIONS 238
8 4 SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER RESEARCH 242
APPENDICES 245
Appendix 1: A comparison of text categories between ICE-EA and ICE-GB 245
Appendix 2: A comparison of text categories and text codes between spoken ICE-K
and ICE-GB 247
Appendix 3: A comparison of text categories and text codes between written ICE-K
and ICE-GB 248
Appendix 4: Elicilation test administered to university students in Kenya 249
BIBLIOGRAPHY 253
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