Contact-induced variation in clausal verb complementation: the case of REGRET in World Englishes

It has been argued that in language contact situations both transfer processes from the substrate languages (Thomason, 2008) and cognitive effects derived from the language contact situation itself (Schneider, 2012, 2013) can constitute important catalysts for language variation and chang...

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Main Author: Romasanta, Raquel P.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de Alicante 2017-12-01
Series:Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses
Online Access:https://raei.ua.es/article/view/2017-n30-contact-induced-variation-in-clausal-verb-complementation