Table of contents -- International Corpus of English -- Introduction -- Off with their heads" -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The corpus-driven approach to TAM -- 2.1 Tagging and chunking -- 2.2 Beheaded verb groups -- 2.3 Comparing observed and expected frequencies -- 3. Corpus-driven results and analysis -- 3.1 ICE-Fiji -- 3.2 ICE-India -- 3.3 ICE-New Zealand -- 3.4 ICE-Ghana -- 3.5 ICE-Great Britain -- 4. Analysis of selected features -- 4.1 Tense -- 4.1.1 Lexical heads and tense -- 4.1.2 Qualitative analysis: A case study on perfect constructions -- 4.1.2.1 Past perfect. -- 4.1.2.2 Present perfect. -- 4.2 Modality -- 4.3 The progressive -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- Modals and quasi-modals in New Englishes -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Recent diachronic trends -- 3. The Englishes -- 4. The data -- 5. The Englishes compared -- 6. Speech and writing compared -- 7. The individual quasi-modals -- 7.1 have to -- 7.2 have got to -- 7.3 be going to -- 7.4 want to -- 8. Conclusion -- References -- The diverging need (to)'s of Asian Englishes -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Need and need to in 1960s and 1990s British and American English -- 3. A methodological preliminary: British English once more -- 4. The needs of four Asian Englishes -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Corpora -- Will and would in selected New Englishes -- 1. Introduction and previous research -- 2. New Englishes selected -- 3. Data and method -- 4. Results and discussion -- 4.1 Results and general findings -- 4.2 Trinidadian English -- 4.3 Jamaican English -- 4.4 Bahamian English -- 4.5 Fiji English -- 4.6 Indian English -- 4.7 Singapore English -- 5. Conclusion and outlook -- References -- Progressives in Maltese English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Outline and contextualization of Maltese English -- 3. Previous research on progressives.

4. The variable: Definition and constraints -- 5. Data -- 6. Quantitative analysis -- 6.1 Maltese and British newspaper corpora -- 6.2 Comparison of spoken and written corpus data -- 7. Qualitative analysis -- 8. Questionnaire data -- 9. Conclusion -- References -- Mapping unity and diversity in South Asian English lexicogrammar -- 1. Introduction: Unity and diversity in and across South Asian Englishes -- 2. Verb-complementational patterns as parameters of variation -- 3. Verb complementation of TCM-related verbs in South Asian Englishes -- 3.1 The patterns of CONVEY, SUBMIT and SUPPLY -- 3.2 TCM-related verbs: previous studies of verb-complementational variation -- 4. Corpus data -- 4.1 The international corpus of english (ICE) -- 4.2 Web-derived newspaper corpora -- 5. Analysis and results -- 5.1 Verbs under scrutiny: CONVEY, SUBMIT and SUPPLY -- 5.2 CONVEY in the ICE and SAVE corpora -- 5.3 SUBMIT in the ICE and SAVE corpora -- 5.4 SUPPLY in the ICE and SAVE corpora -- 6. Discussion and conclusion -- References -- Particle verbs across first and second language varieties of English -- 1. Introduction: Unity and diversity in World Englishes -- 2. Particle verbs in first and second language varieties of English -- 3. Methodology -- 3.1 Corpus data - the International Corpus of English -- 3.2 Particle verbs with up -- 4. Quantitative analysis and results -- 4.1 PVUs in the ICE [W140] corpora -- 4.2 The distribution of PVUs within and across the ICE [W140] corpora -- 4.3 Formality, genres and PVUs in the ICE [W140] corpora -- 5. Qualitative analysis -- 5.1 Unrecorded PVUs across the ICE [W140] corpora -- 5.2 Additional particles in PVUs across ICE [W140] corpora -- 5.3 Innovative usages in PVUs across ICE [W140] corpora -- 6. Conclusion and outlook -- References -- Particle verbs in African Englishes -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Corpus and methodology.

3. Analysing the data -- 4. Results and discussion -- 5. Innovative" PVs in Ugandan English -- 5.1 Widening the search -- 6. Conclusion -- Relatives worldwide -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and analysis -- 3. Results -- 3.1 Overall occurrence of relative clauses and relative markers -- 3.2 Types of relative clauses -- 3.3 Stylistic variability -- 4. Summary and discussion -- References -- Change from to-infinitive to bare infinitive in specificational cleft sentences -- 1. Introduction: The variable and its variants -- 2. Rapid shift to the unmarked infinitive in contemporary British and American English: Real-time evidence from the "BROWN family" and the DCPSE -- 3. Specificational clefts in ICE: Quantitative survey -- 4. Illustration of specific local usages in New Englishes -- 4.1 Syntactic complexity and the retention of to -- 4.2 All-clefts and what-clefts -- 4.3 Insertion of that after BE -- 4.4 Omission of BE. -- 5. Conclusion -- And they were all like 'What's going on?'" -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 3. Data and methods -- 4. Results and discussion -- 4.1 The factor "register" -- 4.2 The factor "collection period" -- 4.3 The factor "grammatical person of the quotative" -- 4.4 The factor "content of the quote" -- 4.5 The factor "speaker sex" -- 4.6 Multivariate analysis -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Index.