The present study sets out to explore the mandative subjunctive in Canadian English (CanE), vs. its potential epicentre American English (AmE), and its historical input variety British English (BrE) based on a quantitative variationist analysis of the Strathy Corpus of Canadian English (Strathy), the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), and the British National Corpus (BNC). The relevance of this contribution primarily stems from the fact that no previous research has yet focused on a contrastive comparison between CanE and its alleged epicentres, namely ‘a model of English for (neighbouring?) countries’ (Hundt, 2013, p. 185), and that the new method of Variation-Based Distance and Similarity Modeling (VADIS) has so far never been applied to research in this field. Key findings show that VADIS is indeed a valuable method in detecting epicentral constellations, and pinpoint fruitful suggestions regarding AmE's alleged transnational influence on its neighbor, as well as cross-border and transoceanic dis/similarities concerning the subject under analysis.

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使用 VADIS 来衡量竞争的震中影响

本研究基于对加拿大 Strathy 语料库的定量变异分析，着手探讨加拿大英语 (CanE) 中的强制虚拟语气与其潜在的震中美国英语 (AmE) 及其历史输入变体英国英语 (BrE)英语 (Strathy)、当代美国英语语料库 (COCA) 和英国国家语料库 (BNC)。这一贡献的相关性主要源于这样一个事实，即以前没有研究集中在 CanE 与其所谓的震中之间的对比比较，即“（邻国？）国家的英语模型”（Hundt，2013 年，第 185 页） ，并且基于变化的距离和相似性建模（VADIS）的新方法迄今为止从未应用于该领域的研究。