Inflectional Deviations: A Corpus Based Comparative Study of Pakistani English Fiction and British English Fiction

Abstract

The present research study intends to find out the Inflectional Morphological Deviations that exist in Pakistani English and British English. Pakistani English, now being considered as an individual language variety, is found to be deviant at almost all linguistic levels from the other varieties of English like British English. This research study tries to find out the Inflectional Morphological deviations in the formation of verb forms in Pakistani English and British English. It is a Corpus based comparative research study. Corpus is compiled from British English Fiction (consisting of more than million words) and from Pakistani English Fiction (more than one million words). The software employed to conduct the research study is AntConc (3.5.9). Research tools employed for data collection and analysis include Wordlist, Concordance Tool and Cluster tool. This study provides help to English Language students especially to those who are interested in linguistic variation of Englishes.