Verb regularization is often characterized as a morphological Americanism in contemporary English. Using synchronic approach, this study investigates the regular -ed vs. irregular -t alternation preterites and past participles from British, American, Nigerian Englishes. Although verb patterns English are considered to be under growing influence of American English, corpus evidence Global Web-ba...

Despite notable exceptions, research on requests in world Englishes has so far largely involved role plays, questionnaires and discourse completion tasks. Moreover, South Asian varieties of English is rather scarce. Therefore, the present study employs a multifactorial approach towards Indian Sri Lankan as compared to their historical input variety British by investigating spoken components Int...

The interest in Malaysian English generated many studies on focusing various grammatical features. However, modality is still under-researched, especially post-independence and new Englishes contexts. As a variety of English, it raises questions how has developed from the historical input variety, i.e., British resistant or accepting to American which highly influential globally. This study aim...

The world Englishes (WEs) paradigm describes the spread of English in three concentric circles (Kachru, 1985) – Inner Circle (e.g., USA, UK, and Australia), Outer (e.g. India, Philippines, Singapore), Expanding China, Indonesia, Thailand). With Englishization nativization outside changing demographics users non-native speakers [NNSs] considerably outnumber native [NSs] [Crystal, 1995; Graddol, ...