Verb regularization is often characterized as a morphological Americanism in contemporary English. Using a synchronic approach, this study investigates the regular -ed vs. irregular -t alternation in preterites and past participles from British, American, and Nigerian Englishes. Although verb regularization patterns in Nigerian English are considered to be under the growing influence of American English, corpus evidence from the Global Web-based English corpus and the International Corpus of English reveals that irregular -t variants remain prevalent in the written data. To examine the conditioning factors, a dataset of 1,643 annotated observations was subjected to probabilistic modelling. The results indicate that significant predictors of verb regularization behave heterogeneously in the three varieties, and there is some evidence for probabilistic indigenization in Nigerian English. These findings suggest that the role of prescriptivism in shaping the usage patterns of Nigerian users of English as a Second Language (ESL) can hardly be overlooked.

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尼日利亚英语不规则动词形态

在当代英语中，动词正则化通常被描述为形态上的美国主义。本研究采用共时方法，研究了英式英语、美式英语和尼日利亚英语的过去式和过去分词中的规则ed与不规则 - t交替。尽管尼日利亚英语中的动词正则化模式被认为受到美式英语日益增长的影响，但来自全球网络英语语料库和国际英语语料库的语料库证据表明，不规则的-t变体在书面数据中仍然普遍存在。为了检查条件因素，对包含 1,643 个带注释的观察结果的数据集进行了概率建模。结果表明，动词正则化的重要预测因素在这三个变体中表现出异质性，并且有一些证据表明尼日利亚英语中的概率本土化。这些发现表明，规定主义在塑造尼日利亚英语作为第二语言（ESL）用户的使用模式方面的作用不容忽视。