日本人が用いる英語の文法的特徴とは？一致の相違や品詞の構造を分析し、日本における「標準英語」の多様性と展望を示す。本文英語。
Chapter 1 Introduction: English in Japan
1.1 English in Japan or “Japanese English”?
1.2 The English Language Policy in Japan
1.3 The EFL Teachers and Culture Materials in Japan
1.4 The Business of ELT in Japan
1.5 Educated Speakers of English in Japan
1.6 Educated Spoken English in Japan
1.7 The notions of “Standard practice” and “Divergence”
1.8 The Purpose of the Work
1.9 Scope, Data and Methodology
Chapter 2 The Structure of the Noun Phrase
2.0 Introduction
2.1 Grammatical categories associated with the constituents of the NP
2.2 Standard realization of the NP
2.3 Divergent realization of the NP
Chapter 3 Concord
3.0 Introduction
3.1 The principles that underlie the notion of concord
3.2 Realization of grammatical concord
3.3 Divergence relating to grammatical concord
3.4 Proximity Vs. Other Principles of concord
Chapter 4 Order of Premodifiers
4.0 Introduction
4.1 The premodification structure in standard practice
4.2 Relative sequence of premodifiers
Chapter 5 The Structure of the Verb Phrase
5.0 Introduction
5.1 Verb classification in English
5.2 Standard realization of VPs
5.3 Divergent realization of VPs
Chapter 6 Prepositional Phrases
6.0 Introduction
6.1 The class of prepositions
6.2 Standard realization of PPs
6.3 Divergent realization of PPs
Chapter 7 Multi-word Verbs
7.0 Introduction
7.1 Multi-word verbs in standard practice
7.2 Standard realization of multi-word verbs
7.3 Divergence relating to multi-word verbs
Chapter 8 Educated written English in Japan
8.1 Divergence relating to articles
8.2 Divergence relating to noncount nouns
8.3 Divergence relating to concord (“grammatical discord”)
8.4 Divergence relating to the order of premodifier
8.5 Prepositions
8.6 Multi-word verbs
8.7 Verbs
8.8 Stability and frequency of divergent forms
8.9 Distinctiveness
Endnote and Glossary of Terms
Bibliography
About the Author