Does Philippine English subject-verb agreement exist in academic writing? The case of research articles across disciplines

Subject-verb agreement is an overlooked grammatical aspect of Philippine English especially in academic registers. This study analyses Philippine English subject-verb agreement in published research articles (RAs) written by Filipino researchers across disciplines. Using Bautista's subject-verb...

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Published inAsian Englishes Vol. 26; no. 2; pp. 337 - 354
Main Author Hernandez, Hjalmar Punla
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Routledge 03.05.2024
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Academic writing
Grammatical agreement
Grammatical aspect
Grammatical subject
Philippine English
Prepositional phrases
Register
South Asian English
subject-verb agreement
Verbs
Philippines
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Summary:Subject-verb agreement is an overlooked grammatical aspect of Philippine English especially in academic registers. This study analyses Philippine English subject-verb agreement in published research articles (RAs) written by Filipino researchers across disciplines. Using Bautista's subject-verb agreement framework and D'Souza's criteria for linguistic innovation, disciplinary RAs were analyzed through manual coding and independent inter-coding. Being widespread, systematic, rule-governed, and formally and competently used, only the intervening prepositional phrase under verb-related agreement was consistently present across 11 qualitative and quantitative disciplinary RA sub-registers. It appears that this could be an acceptable Philippine English grammatical innovation in academic research writing across disciplines. The study yields implications for Philippine English itself, academic writing instructions, and academic research journals.
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ISSN:1348-8678
2331-2548
DOI:10.1080/13488678.2023.2222347