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NDTS IN NON NATIVE ENGLISH A SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/grr.2019(IV-IV).33      10.31703/grr.2019(IV-IV).33      Published : Dec 2019

NDTs in Non-native English: A Syntactic Analysis

Abstract

    Verb complementation in New Englishes perspective has attracted extensive scholarly attention (Nihalani et al., 2004). A valuable deviation due to emergence of locally characteristic linguistic patterns in Pakistani English can be captured in the domain of verb complementation called New Ditransitives (NDTs) (Bernaisch & Koch, 2015), on a broad syntactic level, NDTs are verbs used in double-object construction in new Englishes but not in standard British English. This paper is an attempt to find out NDTs in Pakistani English as compared to British English by using comparable corpora and as well as Predication phrase analysis of Larson (1988) compatible with Chomsky's ideas about arguments' interpretations in the area of vp is used for syntactic analysis. The theoretical significance shows that the main difference in producing NDTs is due to different parameters and system of lexicon.

    Non- native English, Comparative study, Syntactic Analysis, NDTs

    (1) Bisma Butt
    PhD Scholar,Department of English,University of Gujrat, Gujrat, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (2) Behzad Anwar
    Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Gujrat, Gujrat, Punjab, Pakistan.
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