DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2019.v07i10.007

Pages: 710-721

In present globalized world, different varieties of English are to be found among speakers of different geographical and cultural origins. That is why the term ‘World Englishes’ is often used to designate these various kinds of Englishes. Like many other parts of the world, different varieties of the English are also to be found in the South Asian countries as well. As such the label “South Asian Englishes” are sometimes used as an umbrella term to designate all the variations of English used in the South Asian countries – India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and so on. Restoring to a web-derived newspaper corpus of South Asian Englishes, namely South Asian Varieties of English (SAVE) corpus compiled on the basis of newspaper articles from online editions of twelve printed daily newspapers from six South Asian countries between the years 2002 to 2007, the present study identifies the extent to which Bangladeshi English and Indian English differ in their preferences of the clausal verb complementational patterns. Based on the frequency and distributions of the clausal verb complementation types across the two varieties the present study zooms in on the similarities and differences existing between Bangladeshi English and Indian English. The frequency distributions suggest that there are both similarities as well as differences between Bangladeshi English and Indian English in their choices of the clausal verb complementation patterns.