Title: A Corpus Study of the Mandative Subjunctive in Indian and East African English
This corpus study discusses the subjunctive construction in mandative sentences in East African and Indian English. Data taken from the East African ICE-EA corpus and the Indian Kolhapur corpus are compared to previous studies about American English and British English, mainly by Hundt (1998) and Johansson & Norheim (1988). Subjunctive, indicative and modal periphrastic constructions are identified and examined. The conclusion of this study is that the subjunctive construction in mandative sentences is more common in Indian and East African English than in British English.
Contents
1. Introduction
2. The Problem
2.1 Aim
2.2 Hypothesis
3. Theoretical Background
3.1 Other subjunctives
3.1.1 The were-subjunctive
3.1.2 The formulaic subjunctive
3.2 The mandative sentence
3.3 The subjunctive mood
3.4 Realizations
3.4.1 The subjunctive form
3.4.2 Periphrastic constructions
3.4.3 Non-distinct forms
3.5 Conclusion – mood, inflection and modality
4. Material and method
4.1 Material and data
4.2 Classifying the data
5. Results
5.1 East African English
5.1.1 Subjunctives
5.1.2 Indicatives
5.1.3 Non-distinct forms
5.1.4 Should and other modals
5.1.5 Lexical factors in the ICE-EA corpus
5.2 Indian English
5.2.1 Subjunctives
5.2.2 Indicatives
5.2.3 Non-distinct forms
5.2.4 Should and other modals
5.2.5 Lexical factors in the Kolhapur corpus
5.3 Summary and discussion about Indian and East African English
6. Analysis
6.1 Indian English
6.1.1 British English
6.1.2 American English
6.2 East African English
6.3 Summary and conclusion
6.3.1 Other relevant studies
7. Conclusion
Appendixes
References
Author: Boberg, Per
Source: Vaxjo University
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