Dialect contact influences on the use of GET and the GET-passive

Abstract

get is a highly frequent and multifunctional English verb but has so far gone unnoticed in variationist studies of World Englishes. This study aims at exploring to what extent dialect contact contributes to the variation of get in British, Jamaican, and Singaporean English, in particular to variation in the frequencies of its word-forms and in the use of the get-passive. For that purpose, all tokens of get in the ICE (International Corpus of English) corpora of Great Britain, Jamaica, and Singapore were analysed for form and meaning. The results demonstrate that influence from the major standard varieties British and American English as well as substrate influence can be made responsible for the variation of get.

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