Exploration of the Mandative Subjunctive in Pakistani English

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dc.bibliographicCitation.firstPage202
dc.bibliographicCitation.issue1-2
dc.bibliographicCitation.lastPage217
dc.bibliographicCitation.volume44
dc.contributor.authorSchmidt, Karola
dc.contributor.authorFunke, Nina
dc.date.accessioned2025-08-28T14:46:28Z
dc.date.available2025-08-28T14:46:28Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.date.updated2025-04-15T16:10:00Z
dc.description.abstractThe study at hand explores the alternation between the mandative subjunctive and its equivalent construction with the modal verb should in Pakistani English. The study enhances understanding of the alternation both by focusing on Pakistani English as a relatively under‐researched postcolonial variety of English and by complementing the traditional syntactic variables that influence the choice of subjunctive with a sociolinguistic dimension in the form of the language user's gender. Using data from the SAVE and SAVE2020 corpora, we investigate the following research questions: What factors influence the mandative subjunctive/ should alternation, is gender a significant influence on the choice and has the subjunctive choice changed over time? A multifactorial model was fitted on the 504 extracted data points with the following predictors: gender, lexical diversity, linking word, negation, newspaper, primer, range, readability, subject number, subject person, time, trigger lemma, voice and word count . The results show an effect of gender and time in interaction with several other variables. The interactions show significant diachronic adjustments to the constructional preferences of the individual subjunctive triggers and reveals that across these triggers, women are generally more likely to pick the subjunctive over its modal alternant than men.
dc.description.sponsorshipDeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/weng.12697
dc.identifier.urihttp://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/3646
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.issn0883-2919
dc.relation.journalWorld Englishesen
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND 4.0
dc.subject.ddcddc:420
dc.subject.ddcddc:305.3
dc.subject.fieldenglishstudies
dc.subject.fieldlinguistics
dc.subject.fieldgenderstudies
dc.titleExploration of the Mandative Subjunctive in Pakistani English
dc.typearticle
dc.type.versionpublishedVersion
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