Endonormative stabilization in Philippine English lexis

Biermeier, Thomas (2024) Endonormative stabilization in Philippine English lexis. WORLD ENGLISHES, 43 (4). pp. 555-570. ISSN 0883-2919, 1467-971X

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Abstract

In the past 10 years, we have seen an enormous increase in the interest in Philippine English (PhilE) vocabulary. This is especially documented by the new entries of distinctive PhilE words in the Oxford English dictionary. Thanks to the rise of electronic mega-corpora, such as GloWbE and the NOW Corpus, it has become possible to discover even more lexical innovations in PhilE. In this article, I compare nominal and adjectival suffixes across the following varieties of English: India, Singapore, Hong Kong, the Philippines, the United States, Canada, New Zealand and Great Britain. The comparisons were carried out on a quantitative and qualitative level, based on the findings in GloWbE, NOW and ICE. Apart from suffixes, the article also discusses less frequent and productive types of word-formation, such as synthetic compounds and splinters (budgetarian).

Item Type: Article
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Subjects: 400 Language > 420 English
Divisions: Languages and Literatures > Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik > Lehrstuhl für Anglistik (Prof. Dr. Anna-Julia Zwierlein)
Depositing User: Dr. Gernot Deinzer
Date Deposited: 24 Jul 2025 09:25
Last Modified: 24 Jul 2025 09:25
URI: https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/63648

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