Taking a look at expanded predicates in Philippine English across time

• Main Authors: Borlongan, Ariane Macalinga, Dita, Shirley N.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2015
• Subjects: English language—Verb phrase; English language—Philippines; Corpora (Linguistics); English Language and Literature
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/3053
• Institution: De La Salle University

This paper reports on a corpus-based investigation of expanded predicates in Philippine English across a three-decade period. Looking at the Philippine parallel to the Brown University Standard Corpus of Present-Day American English, it was found that there is not much change on Philippine English expanded predicates with reference to time. Philippine English demonstrated an insignificant increase in its use of expanded predicates. The new English renders a colloquial association for expanded predicates regardless of time period, in fictional and conversational texts, except that expanded predicates doubled within the three-decade period. Expanded predicates in Philippine English have increased much greatly, compared to the older Englishes discussed in this paper. Though British English has lessened its use of expanded predicates, British English still has greater number of expanded predicates than Philippine English and American English. And even though the expanded predicates in Philippine English also increased as they did in American English, Philippine English of the 1990s arrives at a frequency closer to the frequency of British English of the 1990s than that of American English of the 1990s. Nonetheless, change in the three Englishes is insignificant within the three-decade period. © 2015, © 2015 Taylor & Francis.